in specimens from the localities recorded helow, but a slight approach to it is seen in
examples from various parts of South America, though never to the same extent as in
the birds of Central America and Ecuador.
The present species was first named hy Mr. G. N. Lawrence, from specimens procured
by McLeiinnan in Panama, and scA eral individuals collected by him on the line of
i-ailway in this State are in the Salvin-Godman collection.
Mr. Salvin himself noticed the species in abundance at Obispo in May 1873, its
favourite resting-place heing the telegraph-wires placed along the line of railway. Schott
found it on the Truando lliver, and specimens obtained at Chitra near Chiriqui in tlie
State of Panama hy Arcé are in the Salvin-Godman collection. It extends nortliwards
to Costa Rica {ron Franlzius, Zeledon), and Carmiol procured examples at Angostura
in that country, in June and August.
In South America it has not a very extended range, hut it occurs not unfrcquently
in “ Bogota ” collections. Mr. AA’yatt met with it at Ocaña and Bucarramanga in the
Magdalena Valley. Salmon also found it at Santa Elena aud Remedios in the Cauca
A'alley: at tbe latter place it was breeding. A Venezuelan specimen is in the British
Museum.
In Ecuador Eraser procui’cd specimens of the present species at Esmeraldas and
Babahoyo, and an example obtained hy Stolzmann at Lcehugal in AA’ostern Peru, on the
5th of October, is recorded by Dr. Taczanowski: and a specimen from Paucal is in the
Raimondi collection.
A skin said to be from Bahia is in the British Museum, hut there must be some
mistake as to the locality of this specimen.
No further notes on the habits of tliis species have been published, but they will
doubtless be found to be identical with those of its congener, S. ruficollis. The eggs
procured by Salmon at Remedios are white.
The adult bird figured in tho Plate is drawn from a specimen in Mr. AA'yatt’s
collection from Ocaña, aud the young bird from a Costa Rican example in the Salviu-
Godman collection. The descriptions are from birds in the British Museum.
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S T E L G I D O P T E R Y X S E R R I P E N N I S [ « » « . p . c s s i .
Add:—
Stelgidopteryx serripennis, Sharpe & A^’yatt, Alonogr. Ilirund. pt. xiii. (1S90);
Belding, Occ. Papers Calif. Acad. ii. p. 193 (1890); Alcarns, Auk, vii. p. 4S
(1890); Loomis, t. c. p. 125 ; Cherrie, t. c. p. 335; id. Auk, ix. p. 22 (1892);
Scott, t. e. p. 213; Ridgw. t. c. p. 307 ; Attwater, t. c. p. 310; Lawr. t. c.
p. 356; Hatch, B. Alinnesota, p. 356 (1892); Eisher, N. Amer. Eaun. no. 7,
pt. 2, p. 112 (1893); Thompson, Auk, x. p. 50 (1893); AA'hite, t.c . p. 227;
Brimlcy, t. c. p. 243 ; Sargent, t. c. p. 569.
T h e following additional notes on this species liaA'e appeared since our article was
published.
Air. Thompson records the species from the vicinity of Lake AVinnipeg, on the
authority of Air. Hine. Air. S. E. AA'hite found one of these Swallows dead on Alackiuac
Island in July, hut he never succeeded in procuring another example. Professor
Ridgway noticed its arrival near AA'ashington, D.C., on the 8th of April, 1893. Iu
Alinnesota Dr. Hatch states that it arrives ahout the same time as Cotile riparia, and it
is “ no less common in some sections. Dr. Hvoslef reports it as ono of the very common
Swallows, arri-ving at Lanesboro’ on the 19th of April in 1881.”
Air. II. B. Sargent records the meeting of the species at Shelter Island, N.Y'.,
as follows AVhile collecting with Air. AV. AV. AA'orthingtou of Shelter Island,
June 3, 1893, I found a nest of the Rough-winged Swallow containing four much
incubated eggs. The nest was placed in a bank about forty feet high, ou the shore ;
it looked like an old Bank-Swallow’s burrow. It was two feet from the top of the
hank and twenty-seven inches deep. The chamber the nest was in w'as twelve inches in
diameter, and was completely filled with dried sea-grasses on which the eggs were laid.
“ I shot tho female, and as it fell in the water the male came up and tried to help
its disabled mate, at the same time uttering a most plaintive cry.”
Air. Brimley says that in North Carolina the speeies luas “ apparently been getting