BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 53 



PETROCHELIDON FULVA FULVA (Vieillotj. 

 CUBAN CLIFF SWALLOW. 



Similar to /*. hmifr'ons inelanogadra but smaller, with sides of head, 

 chin, and throat palo cinnamon-rufous, vinaccous-cinnamon, or whitish 

 tinged with cinnamon, instead of deep chestnut; lower throat without 

 trace of blackish spot; rump deeper chestnut, and back more broadly 

 streaked with white. 



AdulU {sexes alike). — Forehead deep chestnut, forming* a l)road 

 frontal patch, less sharply defined posteriorly and less pointed at 

 extremities than in P. lunifrons and its subspecies; crown and occi- 

 put glossy ])lue-black or greenish black; hindneck brownish gray, 

 usually with the upper portion (next to black of pileum) chestnut; 

 back and scapulars glossy blue-black, the former conspicuously streaked 

 with white, especial!}^ along median j)ortion; rump chestnut or deep 

 cinnamon-rufous; upper tail-coverts hair brown, sometimes with paler 

 margins; wings and tail dusky hair brown, the secondaries sometimes 

 with paler terminal margins; lores blackish; auricular, suborbital and 

 malar regions, chin, and throat varying from whitish, tinged with 

 cinnamon -rufous to between vinaceous-cinnamon and pale cinnamon- 

 rufous; chest, sides, flanks, and crissum similar in color to throat and 

 sides of head, but usuall}" more or less tinged with pale grayish brown; 

 under tail-coverts hair brown, broadly margined W'ith white (this 

 sometimes tinged with pale cinnamon-rufous); breast and abdomen 

 white; axillars and under wing-coverts light broccoli brown or hair 

 brown; bill black; iris brown; legs and feet horn color. 



Yoimg. — Much duller in color than adults. Pileum, back, and scap- 

 ulars dull black; frontal patch much narrower and less distinct than 

 in adults, dull chestnut or cinnamon-brown; tertials and upper tail- 

 coverts broadh^ margined terminally with cinnamon; auricular region 

 dusky; chin and throat usually white, or very uearh' so, sometimes 

 minutel}' flecked with dusky. 



Adult maJe.—luength (skins), 111-131 (123); wing, 101-108 (103.5); 

 ta^il, 12—17 (lo); exposed culmen, 6.5-7.5 (7); width of bill at frontal 

 anticT?, 5.5-7 (6.2); tarsus, 11.5-12 (11.0); middle toe, 11-12 (11.3)." 



Adult fem(de.--ljQngth. (skins), 121-129 (123.5); wing, 101-106 

 (103.7); tail, 11-1:8 (15.7); exposed culmen, 7; width of bill at frontal 

 antii«, 6-6.5 (6.1); tarsus, 11-11.5 (11.2); middle toe, 11-11.5 (11.2).* 



Island of Cuba (including Isle of Pines), Greater Antilles; island of 

 Haiti ?.^ 



« Eleven specimens, from Cuba and Isle of Pines. 

 ^> Four specimens, from Cuba and Isle of Pines. 



'■ I have not seen any specimens from the island of Haiti, and therefore am not 

 sure that the Cuban birds are reallv the same form. 



