BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 695 



[Cypselus] phoenicobius Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 64, no. 733, part (Jamaica).— 



ScLATER and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 94, part (Jamaica). — Cory, 



List Birds West Ind., 1885, 17, part (Jamaica; Haiti). 

 Tachornis phcenicobius Cory, Cat. West Ind. Birds-, 1892, 12, 43, part (Jamaica; 



Haiti). 

 Cypselus cayennensisf (not Uirundo cayanensis Gmelin) Salle, Proc. Zool. Soc. 



Lond., 1857, 232 (Santo Domingo). 

 Cypselus cayanensis? Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xi, 1867, 95 (Santo Domingo). 



TACHORNIS PH(ENICOBIA YRADH (Lembeye). 



CUBAN PALM SWIFT. 



Similar to T. p. phoenicohia, but tail more deeply forked, back 

 averaging much more sooty (less black), color of sides averaging 

 decidedly paler, and sides of head more extensively grayish brown; 

 averaging larger. 



Adult male.— Length (skins), 96-107 (102); wing, 94.5-106 (100.6); 

 tail, 38-47 (42.5); exposed culmen, 4-5 (4.4); tarsus, 6.5-7 (6.8); 

 middle toe, 4-4.5 (4.3).« 



Adult female.— Length (skins), 102-113 (108); wing, 98.5-110 

 (106); tail, 41-48 (45.9); exposed culmen, 4.5-5 (4.6); tarsus, 6.5-7.5 

 (7); middle toe, 4-4.5 (4.2)." 



Island of Cuba (Monte Verde; Pinar del Rio; Guanajay; Bata- 

 bano; Holquin; San Pablo: Trinidad). 



Cypselus yradii Lembeye, Aves de la Isla de Cuba, 1850, 50, pi. 7, fig. 4. 

 Tachornis iradii Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1860, 268; 1874, 116 (habits); Repert. 



Fisico-Nat. Cuba, 1866, 95. — Albuecht, Journ. flLr Orn., 1861, 208. 

 [Tachornis] iradii Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 330. 

 Tachornis gradii (typographical error) Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. IL, vii, 



1860, 306. 

 Tachornis phoenicobius (not T. phoenicobia Gosse) Cabanis, Journ. fiii- Orn., 1856, 



5. — Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 411. — Cory, Cat. West Ind. Biixls, 



1892, 12, 43, part (Cuba). 

 [Tachornis] phoenicobius Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 94, part. 

 T[achornis] phoenicobius Hartert, Das Tierreich, Podarg., Caprim., I\Iacroi)t., 



1897, 82, part (Cuba). 

 Cypselus phcenicobius Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865, 604, part (Cuba); 



Journ. fiir Orn., 1867, 125, part (Cuba; monogr.). — Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 



344, part (Cuba); viii, 1891, 294 (Cuba); Birds West Ind., 1889, 139, part 



(Cuba). 

 [Cypselus] phoenicobius Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 64, no. 733, part (Cuba). — 



Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 94, part (Cuba). — Cory, List 



Birds West Ind., 1885, 17, part (Cuba). 

 Tachornis phoenicobia Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., iv, 1892, 302 (San Pablo, 



s. Cuba). 

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

 Cypselus phsenicobius Menegaux, Rev. Frauf. d'Orn., no. 2, 1909, 26 (Guan- 



tanamo and San Carlos, Cuba) . 

 Tachornis phoernicobius Gundlach, Orn. Cubana, ed. 1895, 98. 



« Eight specimens. 



