HIRVNDINW^:. 



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paler and more orange (very nearly the tint of red-lead), the 

 rump and ground-color of back olive-grayish, and wing-bands 

 pure white. Adult female with yellow of lower parts and olive 

 of upper parts much paler. Length (of male, before skinning) 

 8.25, wing 3.85-3.95, tail 3.30-3.50, exposed culmen .70-75, 

 depth of bill at base .38-.42. Hab. Tres Marias Islands, western 

 Mexico. P. flammea Bidgw. Tres Marias Tanager. 1 



b*. Wing less than 3.00. (Adult males rich scarlet-vermilion, the lores, scapu- 

 lars, wings, and tail deep black, the wings with two broad bands of 

 pure white across tips of middle and greater coverts. Adult females 

 bright olive-green above, yellow beneath ; wings and tail grayish 

 dusky, with olive edgings, the former with two white bands, as in 

 males.) 

 c 1 . With narrower wing-bands ; adult male with the red a lighter, more 

 scarlet, tint; adult females with the yellow and olive less deep; 

 length (skins) about 5.10-5.50, wing 2.65-2.85, tail 2.30-2.55. Hab. 

 Southern Mexico (north to Jalapa, Valley of Mexico, etc.), Guate- 

 mala, and Salvador. 



P. leucoptera TRUDEAtr. White-winged Tanager.2 



c 2 . With broader wing-bands ; adult males with the red of a darker tint 



(almost carmine on upper parts) ; adult females with the yellow and 



olive more intense ; length (skins) about 4.90-5.20, wing 2.65-2.85, 



tail 2.35-2.55. Hab. Costa Eica and Veragua. 



P. leucoptera latifasciata Eidgw. Broad-banded Tanager.' 



Family HIRUNDINIDiE. — The Swallows. (Page 322.) 



Genera. 



a}. Nostrils opening directly upward, and with very little membrane bordering the 

 inner edge. 

 b\ Wing 5.00, or more ; tail decidedly forked (for much more than length of 

 tarsus) ; adult males (of North American and some tropical species) 

 entirely glossy blue-black. (Largest of the Swallows.) 



Progne. (Page 458.) 



b 2 . Wing decidedly less than 5.00 ; tail nearly even (forked for much less than 



length of tarsus) ; adults (sexes alike in color) not black beneath. 



c 1 . Upper parts parti-colored, the crown and back blue-black, forehead 



whitish or rusty brown, rump cinnamon or buffy ; throat and sides 



of head chestnut, rest of lower parts whitish medially, grayish 



brown laterally ; edge of outer quill normal. 



Petrochelidon. (Page 459.) 



'New species; type, No. 50824, d" ad., Tres Marias; Col. A. J. Grayson. (Four specimens — two adults of 

 each sex.) 



2 Pyranga leucoptera Trudeau, Jour. Ac. Sci. Phil. viii. 1839, 160. 



3 New subspecies. 



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