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Island of Jamaica, Greater Antilles; island of Porto Kico?;<^ 

 northern Yucatan?;* State of Chiapas, southern Mexico?/ 



Hirundo pccclloma Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 64. — Osbukn, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1865, 63 (Jamaica). 



\_H%ru)tdo] poeciloma Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 71, no. 837. 



Petrochelidon poeciloma Baird, Review Am. Birds, May, 1865, 292 (Spanishtown, 

 Jamaica). — Gundlacii, Journ. fi'ir Orn., 1874, 311 (Porto Rico). 



Pletrochelidon'} fulva pceciloma Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 460, footnote 

 (crit.). 



Petrochelidon fulva (not Hirundo f idea Vieillot) Sclatek, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1861, 72 (Jamaica); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 40 (do.). — Albrecht, Journ. fiir 

 Orn., 1862, 194 (Jamaica). — Salvix and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 

 1883, 228, part (Jamaica; n. Yucatan?; Panama?). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., X, 1885, 195, 635, part (Jamaica; Porto Rico; n. Yucatan?; Panama?). — 

 Cory, Birds W. I., 1889, 71, part; Cat. W. 1. Birds, 1892, 115, part (Jamaica; 

 Porto Rico).— (?) BoucARD, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, 442 (Yucatan).— 

 Scott, Auk, ix, 1893,81 (Jamaica). — Field, Auk, xi, 1894, 127 (Jamaica). — 

 Sharpe and Wy'att, Mon. Hirund., 1894, 561, 592, part, pi. 107. '^ 



[Petrochelidon] fulva Sclater and Salvix, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 14, part. 



P[etrorIieli don] fulva Newtox (A. and E. ), Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 107. 



Hirundo fulva (not of Vieillot) March, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1863, 295 

 (Jamaica; descr. nesting). — Bryaxt, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., x, 1866, 222, 

 251 (Porto Rico) .—GuxDLACH, Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., vii, 1878, 198 

 (Porto Rico). 



Hinindo melanogaster (not of Swainson) Dexxy, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1847, 

 38 (Jamaica). 



"With only one adult from Porto Rico for comparison, the status of the bird from 

 that island is doul)tful. The specimen is not sexed. In coloration it seems to agree 

 best with the Jamaican l)ird, though the plumage is rather worn, and therefore not 

 satisfactory for comparison. Its measurements are as follows: Wing, 98.5; tail, 44; 

 exposed culmen, 6.5; width of bill at frontal antia?, 5.5; tarsus, 11.5; middle toe, 11.5. 

 The wing is shorter and the bill is smaller than in any specimen among the Jamaican 

 series. 



''Four adults from northern Yucatan (Chicheu Itza and Izamal) are similar to 

 Jamai(;an specimens in coloration, but are still smaller, measuring as follows: 



Adult male (two specimens). — Wing, 97-100 (98.5); tail, 43—14 (43.5); exposed cul- 

 luen, 6.5-7 (6.7); width of bill at frontal antiie, 5.5-6 (5.7); tarsus, 11.5-12 (11.7); 

 middle toe, 10.5-11 (11). 



^idi</</e/n«/e (two specimens). — AVing, 95-98(96.5); tail, 43.5-45 (44.2); exposed 

 culmen, 6.5-7 (6.7); width of bill at frontal antite, 6.5-7 (6.7); tarsus, 11-12 (11.5); 

 middle toe, 11. 



'■ A young bird from Ocozucuantla, Chiapas, in the Biological Survey collection 

 (no. 143510, coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.; collected Aug. 20, 1895, by Nelson and Goldman), 

 unquestionably belongs to one of the forms of /'. fulva, but in the absence of a 

 sufficient series of young birds for comparison, I am unable to determine which form 

 it should be referred to. It closely resembles an example of P. f. pallida, from Miqui- 

 huana, Tamaulipas, and ])ossibly belongs to that subspecies. 



rfThe figure, which is very badly colored, is from a Yucatan specimen. 



