. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 86 BIRDS OF AMERICA BARN SWALLOW Hirundo erythrogastra Boddacrt A. II. V. Xumber 61 j See Color Plate 88 Other Names.—American Bam Swallow ; Karii-loft Swallcjw : Fork-tailed Swallow. General Description.— Length, 7 inches. Upper parts, steel-blue; under parts, chestnut and red. Bill, small and depressed; tail, ^3 length of wing, or longer, and forked for more than J/j of its length, the side feathers becoming gradually narrower and more drawn out to the outermost, which are sometimes almost thread-like for the end portion, but always with blunt tip
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 86 BIRDS OF AMERICA BARN SWALLOW Hirundo erythrogastra Boddacrt A. II. V. Xumber 61 j See Color Plate 88 Other Names.—American Bam Swallow ; Karii-loft Swallcjw : Fork-tailed Swallow. General Description.— Length, 7 inches. Upper parts, steel-blue; under parts, chestnut and red. Bill, small and depressed; tail, ^3 length of wing, or longer, and forked for more than J/j of its length, the side feathers becoming gradually narrower and more drawn out to the outermost, which are sometimes almost thread-like for the end portion, but always with blunt tips. Color.—Adult Male: Forehead, chestnut; rest of upper parts, glossy dark steel-blue; wings and tail, dusky faintly glossed with greenish, the middle wing- coverts and inner wing quills broadly margined with glossy steel-blue, the greater coverts glossed with the same; the inner web of the tail-fcalhcrs (except the middle pair), zvith a conspicuous ivhite spot; cheek region, chin, throat, and chest, chestnut or deep cin- namon-rufous, the chest margined laterally by an ex- tension of the glossy steel-blue from sides of the neck, these two lateral jiatches sometimes connected, nar- niwly. and thus forming a nearly complete collar; rest of under parts, pale cinnamon-rufous; iris, brown. Adult Fem.^le: Similar to the adult male and often not distinguishable. Young : Much duller in color than adults; crown and hindneck, sooty-black, much more faintly glossed with blue than back; forehead, dull light-brownish or brownish-bufif. Nest and Eggs.— Nest: A bowl-shaped hemisphere, attached to barn or other buildings, timbers, or on sides oi caves ; constructed of mud pellets mixed with straw and grass, thickly lined with feathers. Eggs : 3 to 6, white marked with spots of bright Indian red. brown, and lavender. Distribution.— North America in general, north to Alaska, northern Mackenzie, southern Manitoba, and southern Ungava; breeding southward over whole of United States ( ex
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