Abstract
Several Neotropical swallows of the genus Tachycineta Cabanis, 1850, have conspicuously white rumps, which caused three of them to be baptized leucopyga. This situation caused confusion concerning the scientific names of these swallows, in particular the Chilean Swallow.
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