. Review of American birds in the Museum of the Smithsonian Instution. [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. IV mm 274 REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. [part I. I. IM *i ntj Smallest of the group (length, ; ving, f)^). ' ' Tail less forked than in .su&i's . • . concolor. .. Females and immature males beneath of a uniform brown or grayish-brown, the edges of the feathers paler . elcgans. Adult males glossy blue-black, except belly and crissum, which are snow-white. Females and immature males with the black of under .;; 1 r parts replaced by brown. Shafts of the white feathers white ......... domiuiceni
. Review of American birds in the Museum of the Smithsonian Instution. [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. IV mm 274 REVIEW OF AMERICAN BIRDS. [part I. I. IM *i ntj Smallest of the group (length, ; ving, f)^). ' ' Tail less forked than in .su&i's . • . concolor. .. Females and immature males beneath of a uniform brown or grayish-brown, the edges of the feathers paler . elcgans. Adult males glossy blue-black, except belly and crissum, which are snow-white. Females and immature males with the black of under .;; 1 r parts replaced by brown. Shafts of the white feathers white ......... domiuiceniis. Adult males glossy blue-black above; dull brown or grayish- brown beneath (?) ; belly and crissum white. !s->jj ,;i r '. ^/ • Females and immature males with the shafts of longer ''^ crissal, and, to some extent, of ventral feathers dusky. No blue-black patch on each side the breast ? Adult .,;, ,, male about inches long. Wing about leucogaster, '.: .;, A blue-black patch each side the breast? Adult male about long. Wing about . domestica. Progne subis. Hirundo subis, Linn. S. N. 10th ed. l'if)^,\92 (Flirundo ccerulea cum- dcnsis, Edwards, Av. tab. 120, Hudson's Bay). ~ i H. purpurea, Linn. S. N. 12th ed. 176o, 344 (//. purpurea, Catesby, .1 y Car. tab. 51).—Apd. Orn. Biog. I, pi. xxiii.—Ib. B. A. I, pi. slv. —Max. Cab. Jour. 18.')8, 101.—Yakrell, Br. Birds, II, 232*, 2/4 (England and Ireland, Sept. 1842).—Jones, Nat. Bermuda, 34 (Sept. 22,184[)).—Progne purpurea, BoiE, Isis, 1826,971.—Brewer, N. Am. Ool. I, 1857, 103, pi. iv, fig. 47 (eggs).—Baird, Birds N. Am. 185«<, 314.—, Catal. 1861, ^8.—Cooper & Suckley, P. R. R. Rep. XII, 2, 186 (Fort Steilacoom).—Blakiston, Ibis, 1863, « 65 (Saskatchewan). Hirundo violacea, Gm. I, 1026. ., //. carulea, Vieill. Ois. Am. Sept. I, 1807, 57, pi. xxvi. , . H. versicolor, ViEHL. Nouv. Diet. XIV, 1817, 509 (U. S.). //. ludoviciana, Cuv. R. A. I, 1817, 374. Hab. The whole Bni
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