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g | ^gf^DINID^E — THE SWALLOWS. 
Genus SETOPHAGA, Swains. (Page 20.) 
A, Belly white. End of lateral tail-feathers black. Sexes dissimilar. 
Ground-color black, without vertex spot. Sides of breast and bases of quills 
and tail-feathers reddish-orange in male, yellowish in female. Length, 5.25. 
Nest in fork of three or four branches of trees. Eggs grayish- white, blotched 
and dotted with purple, lilac, and brown. Hah. Eastern North America to 
Rocky Mountains in summer. ( American Redstart.) .... rutwill a. 
R. Belly vermilion or carmine red. Lateral tail-feathers, including their tips, 
white. Sexes similar. 
Entirely lustrous black, including head and neck. No vertex spot. A 
white patch on the wings. Length, 5.25. Hab. Guatemala to Mexico, and 
Southern Arizona ? (. Painted Flycatcher.) ...... picta. 
Plumbeous-ash, including head and neck. A chestnut-brown vertex spot. 
No white on Wings. Iiah . Mexico ....... miniata . . 
Family HIRUNDINID.ZEI — The Swallows. 
The eyes are hazel or brown in all the North American species. 
Genera. 
A® Nostrils broadly oval, or circular ; opening upwards and forward, and exposed ; 
without overhanging membrane. 
a. Edge of wing smooth. Tarsus short, stout ; equal to middle toe without 
claw; feathered on the inner side above. Nostrils almost or entirely without 
membrane. 
Bill stout; eulmen and commissure much curved. Frontal feathers 
without bristles. Tail deeply forked. Color lustrous-black ; belly and 
crissum sometimes white. (Page 32.) . . . . . . . Progne . 
Bill rather weaker ; commissure and eulmen nearly straight to near tip. 
Frontal feathers bristly. Tail nearly even. Throat, rump, and crissum, 
and usually forehead, rufous ; belly white. (Page 33.) . . Petrochelidon . 
h. Edge of wing smooth. Tarsus longer than in last ; equal to middle toe 
and half the claw. Nostrils bordered along posterior half by membrane, 
but not overhung internally. Bill very small. Tail forked. Crissum dusky 
except in Neochelidon fucata. Various genera and subgenera, none North 
American, as Atticora , Notiochelidon, Neochelidon , and Pygochelidon. 
c. Edge of wing armed with stiff recurved hooks. Tarsus as in preceding 
(tarsus and toes much as in Pygochelidon). Bill larger and more depressed. 
Tail emarginate only. Crissum white. (Page 33.) . , . Stelgidopieryx . 
B. Nostrils lateral; bordered behind and inside, or overhung by membrane, the 
outer edge of which is straight, and directed either parallel with axis of bill or 
diverging from it. 
cl Tarsus short; about equal to middle toe without claw. Tibial joint feath- 
ered ; feathers extending along inside of upper end of tarsus. 
Tarsus bare at lower end. Lateral claws reaching only to base of 
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