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Petrochelidon lunifrons.
Descriptions of First Plumage of Certain North Am. Bbs. Wm. Brewster.
45. Petrochelidon lunifrons.
First plumage: male. Top of head, back, and scapulars dark brown ;
collar around nape, dull ashy, tinged anteriorly with rusty. Rump as in
adult, but paler; forehead sprinkled with white, and with a few chestnut
feathers. Secondaries broadly tipped with ferruginous. Throat white, a
few feathers spotted centrally with dusky. Breast and sides ashy, with a
rusty suffusion, most pronounced on the latter parts. A very small area
of pale chestnut on the cheeks. From a specimen in my collection taken
at Upton, Me., July 27, 1874.
Bull. N. O. C. 3. April, 1878. p. 63.