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Progne domeMica (not Ilinnulo domi'stica Vieillot) Gray, Cat. Fissirostr. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., 1848, 28. 



Progne doininicerm.'< (not Hirundo dominicemis Gmelin) Gray, Cat. Fissirostr. B. 

 Brit. Mus., 1848, 28.— Cassin, Cat. Hirund. Mus. Philad. Acad., 1853, 10.— 

 BuRMEiSTER, Syst. Ueb. Th. Bras., iii, 18.56, 141.— Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1857, 201 (San Andres Tuxtla, Vera Cruz) ; 1859, 364 (Jalapa, Vera 

 Cruz); 1860, 292 (Ecuador); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 38, part (Esnieraldas, 

 Ecuador; Jalapa; Guatemala) .—Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 13 (Guate- 

 mala).— Salvix, Ibis, 1859, 466 (Belize, British Honduras).— Taylor, Ibis, 

 1860, 110 (Comayagua, Honduras) .—Owex, Ibis, 1861,61 (San Geronimo, 

 Guatemala; descr. egg). 



(?) P[rogne'] dondiiicoms Cabasis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 51 (Brazil). 



Progne purpurea (not Hirundo purpurea Linnaeus) Cabanis, in Schomburgk's 

 Reis. Brit. Guiana, iii, 1848, 671.— Leotaud, Ois. Trinidad, 1866, 92. 



Progne leucogaster Baird, Review Am. Birds,^Iay, 1865, 280 (Cajabon, Vera Paz, 

 Guatemala; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.).— Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 

 96 (San Jose, Costa Rica); Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 17 (Barrio, 

 Oaxaca).— Fraxtzius, Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 294 (Costa Rica).— Sumichrast, 

 Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 547 (Vera Cruz; hot and temperate zones, up 

 to 4,000 ft.).— Ferrari-Perez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 139 (Jalapa, 

 Vera Cruz). 



[Progne'] Imcogaxter Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 75, no. 892. 



P^rognel leucogadra Salvin, Ibis, 1866, 203, in text (Guatemala; crit.). 



Projjrne Zeucof/as^ra Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 569 (Mexi- 

 ana I. and Para, lower Amazons), 749 (Xeberos, e. Peru), 754 (Xeberos and 

 Yurimaguas, e. Peru); 1870, 836 (San Pedro, Honduras).— Wyatt, Ibis, 

 1871, 323 (Magdalena Valley, Colombia).— Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 iii, 1880, 236.— Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1882, 391 (La Palma, w. 

 Costa Rica) . 



Progne {mhh var?) fencogasier Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, i, 1874, 329, footnote. 



PROGNE MODESTA (Neboux). 

 GALAPAGOS HARTIN. 



Much smaller than any of the continental forms, and lacking any 

 trace of white on sides of lower back or outer edge of sides. 



Adult male. — Uniform glossy dark violaceous steel blue, as in P. 

 siilis, P. /areata^ etc., but hardly so bright; wings and tail black, very 

 faintly glossed with bluish or greenish; bill l)lack; iris brown; legs 

 and feet brownish black or dusky brown; length (skins), 1-1:2-153(148.2); 

 wing, 122-12-1: (123); tail, 61-63.5 (62.2), forked for 10-1-t (12); exposed 

 culmen, 10; width of bill at frontal antia? 7-8 (7.5); tarsus, 11-12 

 (11.7); middle toe, 12." 



Ad lilt feiiude. —\ho\Q black, becoming sooty on head and rump, the 

 back and scapulars strongly glossed or overlaid with violaceous steel 

 blue (much duller than in adult male; upper tail-coverts .sometimes 

 with narrow terminal margins of paler; under parts dark sooty gray 



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