Andean Swallow

SCI Name:  Orochelidon andecola
Protonym:  Hirundo andecola Mag.Zool. 7 cl.2 p.69
Taxonomy:  Passeriformes / Hirundinidae / Orochelidon
Taxonomy Code:  andswa2
Type Locality:  La Paz, Bolivia.
Author:  d''Orbigny & Lafresnaye
Publish Year:  1837
IUCN Status:  Least Concern

DEFINITIONS

OROCHELIDON
(Hirundinidae; Ϯ Brown-bellied Swallow O. murina) Gr. ορος oros, ορεος oreos  mountain (i.e. Ecuadorean Andes); χελιδων khelidōn, χελιδονος khelidonos  swallow; "Orochelidon †, new genus.   Differing from Atticora, Neochelidon and Notiochelidon in having the subbasal phalanx of middle toe entirely free from the outer toe; from Diplochelidon in having the tail much less than two-thirds as long as wing, and forked for less than one-fourth its length (nearly even in one species), and nasal fossæ occupying at least basal half of maxilla.   Type, Petrochelidon murina Cassin (= Hirundo cinerea Gmelin?)   ...   † Oρος, a mountain; χελιδων, a swallow." (Ridgway 1903).
Synon. Haplochelidon.

andecola / andecolus
French Andes  Andes; L. -cola  dweller  < colere  to dwell in.

SUBSPECIES

Andean Swallow (andecola)
SCI Name: Orochelidon andecola andecola
andecola / andecolus
French Andes  Andes; L. -cola  dweller  < colere  to dwell in.

Andean Swallow (oroyae)
SCI Name: Orochelidon andecola oroyae
oroyae
Oroya, Junín, Peru.