102 BULLETIN oO, TTNITEt) STATES TSTATIOTSTAL MUSEUM. 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but chest (sometimes throat 

 also) spotted or mottled with grayish brown, the under tail-coverts 

 sometimes with a few spots of the same; length (skins), 115-120 

 (117.5); wing, 102-109 (104.3); tail, 50-52 (51), forked for 9.5-12 

 (10.5); exposed culmen, 5; tarsus, 9.5-10 (9.7); middle toe, 8.5-9 

 (8.8).« 



Island of Jamaica, Greater Antilles. 



Hirundo euchrysea Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 68; Illustr. Birds Jam., 1849, pi. 



12.— Gray, Cat. Fissirostr. Birds Brit. Mus., 1848, 26.— March, Proc. Ac. Nat. 



Sci. Philad., 1863, 295.— Baird, Eeview Am. Birds, 1865, 304 (Trelawney 



and Spanishtown, Jamaica). — Cory, Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 17, 115, 130. — 



Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., s, 1885, 170, 632.— Sharpe and Wyatt, Mon. 



Hirmid., 1894, 407, 426, pi. 76. 

 ISirundo'] euchrysea Sclater and Salvin, Nom. A v. Neotr., 1873, 14. — Cory, 



List Birds W. I., 1885, 10. 

 [.Serse] euchrysea Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 34. 

 Petrochelidon euchrysea Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1861, 72; Cat. Am. Birds, 



1862, 39.— Albrecht, Journ. fiirOrn., 1862, 194. 

 [^Callichelidon'] euchrysea Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1865, 303. 

 ClaUichelido7i] euchrysea Newton (A. and E. i, Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 107. 

 Tachycineta euchrysea. Cory, Auk, iii, Jan., 1886, 58; Birds "W. I., 1889, 72. — 



Scott, Auk, x, 1893, 181. 

 \_Hirundo\ eucJirisea Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 72, no. 849, part (excl. syn. "var. 



dommicev.'<'ix, Bryant " ) . 



LAMPROCHELIDON SCLATERI (Cory). 

 SCLATER' S SWALLOW. 



Similar to Z. euchrysea, but Avings and tail longer, the latter much 

 more deeply forked, and bill much smaller; adults with upper jmrts 

 much less golden in color, with forehead and upper tail-coverts bluish 

 green and the remiges and rectrices bluish black instead of dark 

 bronzy. 



Adult male. — Forehead, crown, sides of head (down to and including 

 malar region), upper tail-coverts and lesser wing-coverts highly glossed 

 or burnished metallic bluish green; occiput, hindneck, back, and 

 scapulars very bright metallic bronze green, gradualh^ changing into 

 the more bluish green of forehead and upper tail-coverts; middle and 

 greater wing-coverts and innermost secondaries black or l)luish black, 

 broadly margined with metallic green or bluish green (more brouz}^ in 

 some lights, but not golden or coppery as in Z. ertchri/sea); alula, pri- 

 mary coverts, primaries, outermost secondaries, and rectrices slights 

 glossy blue-black, the rectrices with outer webs more greenish basally; 

 axillars and under wiug-coverts dusky, broadly margined wi.h green 

 and bronze (the latter more evident on axillars); under parts pure 

 white; bill black; iris brown; legs and feet dark brownish (in dried 

 skins); length (skin), 122; wing, 116; tail, 58, forked for 15; exposed 

 culmen, 4.7; tarsus, 10; middle toe, 8.^ 



<"' Three specimens. 'M)ne specimen. 



