Northern Rough-winged Swallow

SCI Name:  Stelgidopteryx serripennis
Protonym:  Hirundo serripennis Orn.Biogr. 4 p.593
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Hirundinidae / Stelgidopteryx
Taxonomy Code:  nrwswa
Type Locality:  Charleston, South Carolina.
Author:  Audubon
Publish Year:  1838
IUCN Status:  

DEFINITIONS

STELGIDOPTERYX
(Hirundinidae; Ϯ Northern Rough-winged Swallow S. serripennis) Gr. στελγις stelgis, στελγιδος stelgidos  strigil, scraper; πτερυξ pterux, πτερυγος pterugos  wing; "Each will form the type of a special division, of at least sub-generic value, with the following characters  ...  STELGIDOPTERYX, Baird. - Tarsi naked. Edge of outer primary with the fibrillae converted into a series of stiffened recurved hooks.  Above light sooty brown; the under parts brownish ash, fading behind into white.  S. serripennis.  ...  COTYLE SERRIPENNIS, Bonap.  Rough-winged Swallow.  ...  Tail slightly emarginate; first primary with the pennulae of the outer web much stiffened, with their free extremities recurved into a hook very appreciable to the touch" (Baird 1858); "Stelgidopteryx [subgenus] Baird, 1858, in Baird, Cassin and Lawrence, Rep. Expl. and Surv. R. R. Pacific, 9, p. xxxiv, 312. Type, by montypy, Hirundo serripennis Audubon." (Peters 1960, IX, 92).
Var. Stelgidopterus.

serripennis
L. serra saw; -pennis -winged < penna feather.

SUBSPECIES

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (Northern)
SCI Name: Stelgidopteryx serripennis [serripennis Group]
STELGIDOPTERYX
(Hirundinidae; Ϯ Northern Rough-winged Swallow S. serripennis) Gr. στελγις stelgis, στελγιδος stelgidos  strigil, scraper; πτερυξ pterux, πτερυγος pterugos  wing; "Each will form the type of a special division, of at least sub-generic value, with the following characters  ...  STELGIDOPTERYX, Baird. - Tarsi naked. Edge of outer primary with the fibrillae converted into a series of stiffened recurved hooks.  Above light sooty brown; the under parts brownish ash, fading behind into white.  S. serripennis.  ...  COTYLE SERRIPENNIS, Bonap.  Rough-winged Swallow.  ...  Tail slightly emarginate; first primary with the pennulae of the outer web much stiffened, with their free extremities recurved into a hook very appreciable to the touch" (Baird 1858); "Stelgidopteryx [subgenus] Baird, 1858, in Baird, Cassin and Lawrence, Rep. Expl. and Surv. R. R. Pacific, 9, p. xxxiv, 312. Type, by montypy, Hirundo serripennis Audubon." (Peters 1960, IX, 92).
Var. Stelgidopterus.

Northern Rough-winged Swallow (Ridgway's)
SCI Name: Stelgidopteryx serripennis ridgwayi/stuarti
STELGIDOPTERYX
(Hirundinidae; Ϯ Northern Rough-winged Swallow S. serripennis) Gr. στελγις stelgis, στελγιδος stelgidos  strigil, scraper; πτερυξ pterux, πτερυγος pterugos  wing; "Each will form the type of a special division, of at least sub-generic value, with the following characters  ...  STELGIDOPTERYX, Baird. - Tarsi naked. Edge of outer primary with the fibrillae converted into a series of stiffened recurved hooks.  Above light sooty brown; the under parts brownish ash, fading behind into white.  S. serripennis.  ...  COTYLE SERRIPENNIS, Bonap.  Rough-winged Swallow.  ...  Tail slightly emarginate; first primary with the pennulae of the outer web much stiffened, with their free extremities recurved into a hook very appreciable to the touch" (Baird 1858); "Stelgidopteryx [subgenus] Baird, 1858, in Baird, Cassin and Lawrence, Rep. Expl. and Surv. R. R. Pacific, 9, p. xxxiv, 312. Type, by montypy, Hirundo serripennis Audubon." (Peters 1960, IX, 92).
Var. Stelgidopterus.