694 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



TACHORNIS PHCENICOBIA PHGENICOBIA Gosse. 



JAMAICAN PALM SWIFT. 



Adults {sexes alike). — Pileiim and hindneck deep or dark sooty 

 brown (sepia to nearly clove brown) ; back, scapulars, median portion 

 of upper rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail black or sooty black; rump 

 (except median upper portion) white; wings sooty blackish, the inner 

 webs of primaries paler, especially toward edges, the secondaries 

 narrowly margined terminall}^ with paler; a blackish space imme- 

 diately in front of eye, with a less distinct (sometimes nearly obsolete) 

 dull whitish space immediately beneath it; anterior portion of loral 

 region, suborbital region, auricular region, and sides of neck grayish 

 brown (broccoli brown or hair brown); chm, throat, and chest dull 

 white (the first sometimes more or less extensively grayish brown), 

 the feathers grayish brown basally; sides dark sooty brown, this 

 extending across upper breast as a more or less continuous narrow 

 band; abdomen and lower median portion of breast dull white; 

 under tail-coverts very dark sooty brown or sooty black; bill dull 

 black; iris dark brown; feet dusky. 



Young. — Not essentially different from adults, but white of under 

 parts duller, especially that of abdominal area, and brown of sides and 

 under tail-coverts paler. 



Adult male.— Lei\gi\\ (skms), 94-96 (95); wing, 100.5-102.5 (101.7); 

 tail, 39-40 (39.3); exposed culmen, 4-4.5 (4.3); tarsus, 7-7.5 (7.2); 

 middle toe, 4-5 (4.5).« 



Adult female.— Length (sldns), 94-100 (98); wing, 97-102 (100.7); 

 tail, 38.5-44.5 (41.5); exposed culmen, 4-4.5 (4.4); tarsus, 7; middle 

 toe, 4.5.^ 



Islands of Jamaica (Spanishtown ; Kmgston; St. Andrews; Hope 

 Garden) and Haiti (near Jacmel; Santo Domingo). 



Tachomis phoenicobia Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 58; Illustr. Birds Jamaica, 

 1849, pi. 9. — Albrecht, Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 194 (Jamaica). — March, Proc. 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 287 (Jamaica). 



T[achornis] phoenicobia Newton (E. and A.), Handb. Jam., 1881, 108. 



T[achornis] phoenicobius Hartert, Das Tierreich, Podarg., Caprim., Macropt., 

 1897, 82, part (Jamaica; Haiti). 



[Tachoriiis] phoenicobius Sharps, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 94, part (Jamaica; Haiti). 



[Cypselus] phaenicobia Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 66, part. 



Cypsdus phoenicobius Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865, 604, part (Jamaica); 

 Journ. fiir Om., 1867, 125, part (Jamaica; monogr.). — Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn, 

 Club, vi, 1881, 153 (Haiti); Birds Haiti and San Dom., 1885, 87, pi. (22), 

 fig. 12; Auk, iii, 1886, 344, part (Jamaica; Haiti); Birds West Ind., 1889, 

 139, part (Jamaica; Haiti). — Scott, Auk, ix, 1892, 276 (Jamaica). — Field, 

 Auk, xi, 1894, 125 (Port Henderson, Jamaica). 



o Three specimens, from Jamaica. 



b Five specimens, but measurements of tarsus and middle toe from only one. 

 Three specimens from Haiti, but with sex undetermined, measure as follows: Wing, 

 99-103.5(101.7); tail, 39^0 (39.5); exposed culmen, 4; tarsus, 7; middle toe, 4.5. 



