Plate CCCLXXXV. Fig. 1. Male. Fig. 2. Female. Fig. 3. Young.
Tail slightly forked, margin of first quill smooth, tarsus with a tuft
of feathers behind; upper parts greyish-brown, lower whitish, with a
dusky band across the fore part of the neck. Young with the feathers
of the upper parts margined with reddish-white.
_Male_, 5, 11. _Female_, 4-7/8.
From Texas northward. Rocky Mountains. Columbia River. Migratory; but
vast numbers winter in Florida.
Bank Swallow or Sand Martin, Hirundo riparia, Wils. Amer. Orn.
v. v. p. 46.
Hirundo riparia, Bonap. Syn. p. 65.
Hirundo riparia, Sand Martin, Swains. & Rich. F. Bor. Amer. v.
ii. p. 333.
Bank Swallow or Sand Martin, Hirundo riparia, Nutt. Man. v. i.
p. 607.
Bank Swallow or Sand Martin, Hirundo riparia, Aud. Orn. Biog.
v. iv. p. 584.