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WHITE-BANDED SWALLOW.
Hirondelle de Cayenne à bande bianche sur le ventre, Daubent. PI. Enl. vii. pi. i24.
Hirondelle à oeintare bianche, llontb. Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. Oli (1779).
White-bellied SwaUow, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 2, p. 507 (1783).
H i r u n d o f a s c i a l a . Gin. Syst. Nat. i. p. 1022 (1788); Swains. Zool. Illustr. 2nd
ser. i. pi. 17 (1829).
Cecrovis fasciata. Less. Compì. Buffi viii. p. 499 (1837). ...............
A t t i c o r a f a s c i a t a , Boie. Isis, 1844, p. 172 ; Cab. in S e l i o m b Eeis. Guian. '
(1848) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 337 (1850); Cass. Cat. Hirund. Mus. Plulad. Aeaffi p. i
(1853) ; Burm. Tli. Bras. iii. p. 140 (1856) ; Selater, Cat. PBaird,
Eeview Amer. B. p. 306 (1865) ; Sci. & Salv. P. Z. 8^1860, p. 1^8, 1867
pp. 569, 749 ; Gray. Hand-1. B. i. p. 72, no. 857 (1869) ; Pelz. 0™. Bras. pp 18 40
(1871) ■ Sol. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 258 ; iid. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 14 (1873).
L z a n .P .Z .S .1 8 8 2 ,p .8 ; Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll, 153 (1882) ; id^ & Goita^
Biol. Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 229 (1883); Taczan. Orn. Perou p. 244 (188.«_.
Sharpo, Cat. Birds in Brit. Mus. x. pp. 183. 034 (1885); Salvm, Ibis, l&bo,
p. 205.
A. suprìl indigotico-mgra : corpore subtùs dorso miicolorc ; fasciù lata piiepcctoraH alba.
Hab. iu provincia Guiauensi et Amazouicà usque ad P eru vian ., Boliviam, e t terram Equatorialem.
NasUiny. Distinguished b y th e ycllotv gape, broivu throat and chest and ahdomeu the t“ * ' "
arc edged with whity brown ; upper surface duller blue tbaii m tbe adult bird, le i
Upper tail-covcrts brown, with paler brown edges.
1 » » » . D u lle r blue thau the adult, or hrown glossed with blue, with narrow edgings o f whity h r n ^ t “
” tho feathers, more d istinc t on the greater series o f wiug-coverts ; throat and tore neck W ,
glossed with b lu e ; th e entire ehest and breast w h ite ; the abdomen and s.des of 1 wor flank
brown mixed with d ull w h ite ; under tail-coverts browu, sligh tly washed with “
ones Laving paler brown ed g e s; axillaries and under wing-coverts brown, margined with w
near the carpal bend o f the wiug.
A d u lt male. General colour above glossy b lu e-black; wiug-coverts aud quills black externally, edged
with tbe ooiour o f tbo back ; tail very much forked, the feathers blue-black, g lossy on tl.e.r edges ;
lores and base o f forehead velvety black ; sides o f face , ear-covcrts, checks, and entire under
surface o f body glossy blue-black, including the under tail-covcrts ; across tbo breast a very
broad band o f w hite, cxtendmg a little way down the flanks ; th ig h , white ; under wmg-eoverts