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Show 258 MESSRS. SCLATER AND SALVIN O N [Mar. 4, 2. VIREOSYLVIA OLIVACEA (Linn.); Finsch, P.Z. S. 1870, p.565. V. olivacea et V. agilis, Scl. Cat. A. B. p. 43 ; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 179; 1867, pp. 749, 977. Upper Ucayali, Chyavetas, and Chamicuros (Bartlett); Pebas (Hauxwell). Fam. HlRUNDINIDcE. The seven Swallows obtained by Mr. Bartlett are mostly wide-ranging species. Atticora fasciata ranges into Guiana on one side and Western Ecuador on the other, but not further. 1. PROGNE TAPERA (Linn.); Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 178; 1867, p. 749. Upper and Lower Ucayali; Xeberos (Bartlett). " Common on the Upper and Lower Amazon, and breeds in large numbers in all the country visited. The eggs, white, and four or five in number, are deposited in holes in sandy banks; nest made of fine dried grass or fibres ; breeds in September."-E. B. 2. PROGNE CHALYBEA (Gm.) *. P. leucogastra, Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, pp. 749, 7">4. Xeberos, Yurimaguas, Chyavitas, and Chamicuros. " Breeds, like a Woodpecker, in holes in trunks of trees."-E. B. 3. ATTICORA FASCIATA (Gm.); Scl. & Salv. P. Z.S. 1866, p. 178; 1867, p. 749. Upper Ucayali, Yurimaguas, and lakes of Santa Cruz (Bartlett). " Breeds in banks along with Stelgidopteryx ruficollis, and lays four or five white eggs. The nest is rather more complete in structure than that of the latter, the grass-fibres and bents being finer. Nest taken in July."-E. B. 4. ATTICORA CYANOLEUCA (Vieill.) ; Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 178; 1867, p. 749. Nauta, Chyavetas, and Yurimaguas (Bartlett). " Does not breed on the Upper Amazon."-E. B. 5. COTYLE RIPARIA (Linn.). " Nauta ; several specimens obtained."-E. B. Natterer had previously obtained specimens of this species on the Rio Negro (see Pelzeln, Orn. Bras. p. 18). 6. HIRUNDO ALBIVENTRIS, Bodd. Petrochelidon albiventris, Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 178. Hirundo cequatorialis, Scl. & Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, pp. 977, 979. Lower and Upper Ucayali and Santa Cruz (Bartlett); Pebas (Hauxwell). " Builds in the holes of dead trees on the banks of rivers overhanging the water. The nest is composed of fibres of bark, dry grass, and feathers of different kinds of birds, such as the White * Vide Scl. P.Z.S. 1872, p. 606. |