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Hirundo fulva Y1EIJ.LOT, Ois. Am. Sept., i, 1807, 62, pi. 32 (Santo Domingo); 

 Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xiv, 1817, 521; Enc. Meth., ii, 1823, 526.— Ste- 

 phens, in Shaw's Gen. Zool., x, 1817, 126. — Swainson and Richardson, 

 Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 331, footnote (crit.). — Gray, Cat. Fissirostr. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., 1847, 24. — Thienemann, Joiirn. fi'ir Orn., 1847, 149 (Cuba; descr. 



egg)- 



[Hirundo'] fidva Boie, Isis, 1828, 315, part; 1844, 175, part. 



Cecropis fulva Lesson, Compl. Buffon, viii, 1837, 498. 



[IZerse] /«7;'o Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 341, part. 



Pletrochelidon] fulva Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 47, footnote (West Indies).— 

 RiDGWAY, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 460, part (Haiti; Cuba). 



Petrochelldon fulva Gundlach, Jour, fiir Orn., 1856, 3 (Cuba); 1861, 328 (do.); 

 1874, 133; Orn. Cuba, 1876, 82.— Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1865, 291.— Cory, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 152 (Haiti); Birds Haiti and San Dom., 1885, 

 47, pi. 21, fig. 3; Auk, iii, 1886, 57, part; Birds W. I., 1889, 71, part; Cat. 

 W. I. Birds, 1892, 115, part (Cuba; Haiti).— Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Ceutr.-Am., Aves, i, 1883, 228, part (Cuba; Haiti).— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., X, 1885, 195, 635, part (Cuba; Haiti).— Scott, Auk, vii, 1890, 264 

 (Garden Key, Dry Tortugas, Florida, 2 specimens), 311 (do.). — American 

 Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, viii, 1891, 86; Check List, 2d ed., 

 1895, no. 612.1.— Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., iv, 1892, 309 (San Juan, 

 s. Cuba).— Sharpe and "Wyatt, Mon. Hirund., 1894, 561, 592, part.— Cher- 

 RiE, Contr. Orn. San Dom., 1896, 12. 



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



Hirundo coronaia (not of Lichtenstein, 1831) Lembeye, Aves de la Isla de Cuba, 

 1850, 45.— Gundlach, Journ. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1852, 318 (Cuba). 



PETROCHELIDON FULVA PCECILOMA (Gosse). 

 JAMAICAN CLUT SWALLOW, 



Similar to P. f. fulva (from Cuba), but much more deeply colored; 

 gloss to black of upper parts rather greenish blue than violet-blue; 

 the cinnamon -rufous or vinaceous-cinnamon color of sides of head, 

 throat, chest, sides, and Hanks averaging very much deeper, the same 

 color more strongh' suffusing the under tail-coverts." Young much 

 deeper colored than that of P. f. fulva, with throat pale vinaceous- 

 cinnamon, the sides and flanks strongly vinaceous-cinnamon. 



Adult w.«Ze.— Length (skins), 108-124 (115.3); wing, 101-105 (102.2); 

 tail, 43.5-47 (44.9); exposed culmen, 7; width of bill at frontal antite, 

 6-7 (6.4); tarsus, 11-11.5 (11.1); middle toe, 11-12 (11.2).* 



Adult female.— -J^^ngih (skins), 110-122 (114.4) ; wing, 100-103 (101) : 

 tail, 44-46 (44.7); exposed culmen, 7; "width of bill at frontal antia^, 6; 

 tarsus, 11-12 (11.2); middle toe, 11-11.5 (ll.l).'^ 



«In a series of thirteen adults of P. /. fulva from Cuba there is only one which has 

 the throat and sides of head as deeply colored as in the average of the Jamaican series 

 (of exactly equal number of specimens), and in this one the sides and flanks are not 

 nearly as strongly rufescent as in the Jamaican specimen showing least of this color 

 on those parts. The distinction, therefore, between the birds of this species from 

 the two islands in question, while not absolutely constant, is so nearly so that the 

 propriet}' of distinguishing them by name can not be seriously questioned. 



^Six specimens frojn Jamaica. 



(■Four specimens from Jamaica. 



