314 U S. P. E. E. EXP. AND SUEYEYS ZOOLOGY GENEEAL EEPOET. 
In a female from New Leon the wing is half an inch less than in females from Carlisle. In a 
specimen from Charleston the colors of the throat and breast extend farther down on the belly. 
In the young of the year the wing feathers above are edged quite broadly with pale brownish 
rusty, the throat and breast are also tinged more or less with the same. 
List of specimens. 
Catal. 
No. 
Sex and 
age. 
Locality. 
When col- 
lected. 
Whence obtained. 
Orig'l 
No. 
Collected by — 
Length. 
Stretch 
ofwings. 
Wing. 
Remarks. 
2116 
2621 
2634 
33711 
1480 
2619 
1120 
2620 
1638 
2899 
8385 
8384 
8179 
3957 
6033 
6034 
6035 
6032 
6031 
9 
9 
Q 
3 
9 
9 
9 
o 
3 
o 
April 16, 1845 
May 11,1846 
May 24,1815 
May 3, 1815 
May 3, 18 17 
May 8,1844 
May 11,1816 
July 15,1813 
5.17 
5.33 
11.50 
11.50 
4.08 
do 
....do 
5.58 
5.58 
12.00 
12.50 
4.42 
4.50 
do 

May 11,1840 
July 16,1844 
5.17 
5.42 
12.50 
11.50 
4.50 
4.50 
3 
June 20,1857 
June 22,1857 
July 3,1857 
April —,1853 
Win. M.Magraw. 
89 
88 
115 
131 
82 
81 
81 

Dr. Cooper .... 
do 
5.13 
5.75 
5.50 
12.00 
12.50 
12.12 
11 .00 
4.62 
o 
9 
Shawnee Mission, Kan. 
4.50 
4.00 
Lieut. Couch .... 
Eyes brown; bill black j 
feet reddish slate color... 
Shoahvater bay, W. T. . 
June — ,1854 
5.42 
5.42 
12.50 
12.50 
Iris br'njbill and feet bl'k. 
do 
3 
Lt. Williamson. . 
T>|\ tlpprmnnn . 
Feb. 21,1854 
176 j Dr. Kennerly... 
5.25 
11.00 
4.37 
PROGNE, Boie. 
Progne, Boie, Isis, 1826, 971. Type Hirundo purpurea, L. 
Ch. — Bill strong, short ; the gape very wide ; the sides gradually compressed, the culmen and lateral margins arched to the 
tip ; the latter inflected ; the nostrils basal, lateral, open and rounded. Tail considerably forked. Tarsi shorter than the middle 
toe and claw, about equal to the toe alone. Toes long, strong ; lateral ones equal. 
The large size, very stout bill and feet, (for this family,) with the usually uniform black 
glossy plumage, readily distinguish this genus among the swallows. But one species is well 
established as North American. 
PROGNE PURPUREA, Boie. 
Purple Martin. 
Hirundo purpurea, Linn. Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 344.— Audubon, Orn. Biog. I, 1831, 115 ; pi. xxiii.— Ib. Birds Am. I, 
1840, 170 ; pi. xlv. 
Progne purpurea, Boie, Isis, 1826, 971.— Bonap. List, 1838.— Cassin, Illust. 1, 1855, 245,— Brewer, N. Am. Oology, 
I, 1857, 103 ; pi. iv, fig. 47, (egg.) 
Hirundo subis, Linnaeus, Syst. Nat. I, 1766, 344, (second year.) 
Hirundo violacea, Gm. Syst. Nat. I, 1788, 1026. 
Hirundo cartiha, Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept. I, 1807, 57; pi. xxvi. 
" Hirundo versicolor, Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. XIV, 1817, 509," 
" Ilinndo ludoviciana, Cuvier, R. An. I, 1817, 
