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frontal antia?, 9-10 (9.6); tarsus, 14-15 (14.4); middle toe, 14-16 

 (14. 8). « 



Immature male. — Exactly like the adult female in coloration. 



Young male and female {Jirst year). — Similar to the immature male 

 (second year) and adult female, but upper parts much more fainth' 

 glossed with steel blue. 



West Indies, except Cuba* and Bahamas. (Haiti; Jamaica; Porto 

 Rico; Hat Island; St. Martins; St. Eustatius; St. Christopher; Domin- 

 ica; Martinique; Santa Lucia; St. Vincent; Grenada; Barbados.) 

 Island of Tobago. 



\_Hirundo\ doininicens't Gmelix, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 1025 (based on Hirondelle de 

 S. Domingiie Brisson, Orn., ii, 493; Hirondelle d'Amerique Daubenton, PI. 

 Enl., pi. 545, lig. 1). 



Hirundo dominicensis Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept., i, 1807, 59, pis. 28, 29 (Santo 

 Domingo).— (?) Jardine, Ann. & Mag. N. H., xviii, 1846, 120 (Tobago; 

 breeding). — Taylor, Ibis, 1864, 166 (Porto Rico). — Bryant, Proc. Bost. 

 Soc. N. H., X, 1866, 251 (Porto Rico); xi, 1866, 94 (Santo Domingo). 



Progne dominicensis Gosse, Birds, Jamaica, 1847, 69. — Salle, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1857, 232 (Santo Domingo).— Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 38, part 

 (Jamaica). — March, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1863, 295 (Jamaica). — 

 Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1865, 279 (Jamaica; Porto Rico; Santo 

 Domingo). — Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1872, 419 (Porto Rico); Anal. Soc. 

 Esp. Hist. Nat., vii, 1878, 196 (do.).— Coues, Bird Col. Val., 1878, 446, foot- 

 note (synonymy). — Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 56 (Dominica), 

 190 (St. Vincent); i, 1879, 269 (Grenada), 354 (Martinique), 487.— Allen, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 166 (Santa Lucia).— Lister, Ibis, 1880, 40 

 (St. Vincent).— Cory, Birds Haiti and San Dom., 1885, 44, pi. 21, fig. 2; Auk, 

 iii, 1886, 56; viii, 1891, 47 (St. Eustatius), 48 (St. Christopher), 294 (Cuba c) ; 



« Twelve specimens. 



Specimens from different islands average, respectively, as follows: 



^The species is recorded from Cuba by Mr. Cory (Auk, viii, 1891, 294), but in 

 view of the ch-cumstance that the l>ird wan apparently merely observed ( "recorded" ) , 

 not collected, there is a possibility the species may have been /'. cryploleuca. 



'Possibly P. cryploleuca. 



