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and GoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1883, 223, part (Belize, British Hon- 

 duras). — Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 173, part (in synonymy). — 

 Shakpe and Wyatt, Mon. Hirund., 1894, 439, part. 



(?) Plrogne} parpurm. Newton (A. and E. ), Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 107 (Jamaica). 



Progne cryptoleuca Baird, Review Am. Birds, May, 1865, 277 (Remedios, Cuba; 

 coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). — Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1872, 431. — Cory, List 

 Birds W. I., 1885, 10 (Cuba); Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 114, 152 (do.).— 

 RiDGWAY, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 593.— Chapman, Auk, v, 1888, 399.— 

 American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 2d ed., 1895, no. 611. i 



Progne subis, var. cryploleuca Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway', Hist. N. Am. Birds, 

 1, 1874, 332. 



Progne subis cryptoleuca Ridgway, Proc. U. vS. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 1880, 175; 

 Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 152a. 



[Progne] cryptoleuca Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 75, no. 894. — Cory, List Birds 

 W. I., i885, 10. 



P[rogne'] cryptoleuca Ridgway, Mam. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 459. 



Progne, ? Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 923 (Cape Florida). 



Progne Baird, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 231a. 



Progne subis (not Hirundo subis Linnaeus) Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 56 (Cuba); Birds 

 W. I., 1889, 70 (do.). 



(?) Progne dominicensis (not Hirundo dominlcensis Gmelin ?) Cory, Auk, viii, 1891, 

 294 (Cuba). 



PROGNE DOMINICENSIS (Gmelin). 



CARIBBEAN MARTIN. 



Adult male. — Uniform g'lossy steel blue, or violaceous steel blue, 

 the median portion of breast, abdomen, anal region, and under tail- 

 coverts immaculate white; the longer under tail-coverts sometimes 

 with a central, mostly concealed, space of dusky gray, the lateral 

 series sometimes with outer webs dusky gray edged with white; wings 

 and tail black, faintly glossed with bluish; bill black; iris brown; legs 

 and feet brownish black or deep brown (in dried skins); length (skins), 

 163-191 (178); wing, 131-119 (113.5); tail, 70-79 (71.t>), forked for 

 15-22 (19); exposed culmen, 10-12 (11.2); width of bill at frontal 

 antiEe, 8.5-10 (9.1); tarsus, 13.5-15 (11.1); middle toe, 11-16 (15).« 



Advlt female. — Above gloss}^ dark steel blue or violaceous blue, 

 changing to dark sooty brown on forehead; wings and tail black, 

 faintly glossed with greenish blue; sides of head and neck grajdsh 

 brown or sooty, like forehead, the auricular region more or less glossed 

 or overlaid by steel blue; malar region, chin, throat, chest, sides. 

 Hanks, axillars, and under wing-coverts plain deep sooty gray or 

 grayish brown, the chin and throat sometimes distinctly paler, the 

 feathers of chest (sometimes of throat also) indistinctl}^ tipped with 

 pale gray; median portion of breast, abdomen, anal region, and under 

 tail-coverts immaculate white; bill black, or brownish black; iris 

 ])rown; legs and feet deep brown or dusky (in dried skins); length, 

 (skins), 162-187 (167); wing, 130-118 (140); tail, 66-76 (71.9), forked 

 for 11-20.5 (18.3); exposed culmen, 10-12 (11.1); width of bill at 



« Twenty-two specimens. 



