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Adult fe^nale." — Similar to the adult male, but slightly smaller, with 

 tail less deeply- forked; colors sliohtly duller, the green above more 

 bluish, that of the back less golden; sides and center of breast with a 

 few small spots or flecks of grayish brown; length (skin), 122; wing, 

 108; tail, 50, forked for 11; exposed culmen, 4.5; tarsus, 9.5; middle 

 toe, 8.* 



Young w«?^.— -Similar to the adult female, as described above, but 

 plumage much softer; pileum, rump, and upper tail-coverts blackish, 

 much less strongly glossed with bluish green (on the first only narrow 

 tips to the feathers glossy); breast more extensivel}' clouded with 

 gra3'ish brown, the entire chest and upper breast sometimes thus 

 marked; sides of head soft (not gloss}') gra34sh dusky. 



Island of Haiti, Greater Antilles. 



Hirundo euchrysea (var. dominicensis ?) (not Hbrnndo dominiceruns Gmelin) 

 Bryant, Troc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xi, Dec. 2, 1866, 95 (Port au Prince, Haiti; 

 type in coll. U. S. Nat. Mus. ) . ^ 



Hirundo sclateri Cory, Auk, i, Jan., 1884, 2 (Santo Domingo; coll. C. B. Cory); 

 Birds Haiti and San Dom., 1885, 45, colored plate; Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 

 16, 115, 131.— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 171.— Sharpe and 

 Wyatt, Mon. Hirund., 1894, 409, 426, pi. 77. 



[Hmnidol sclateri Cory, List Birds W. I., 1885, 10. 



Tachycineta sclaten Cory, Auk, iii, Jan., 1886, 58; Birds AV. I., 1889, 72. 



Family AMPELID^. 



THE WAXWINGS. 



Ten-primaried acutiplantar Oscines with the tenth primary minute 

 (less than half as long as primary coverts); the tail nuicli shorter than 

 the wing, nearly even or slightly rounded; wing rather long and 

 pointed (longest primaries exceeding secondaries b}- much more than 

 one- third the length of wing, the ninth longer than seventh); loral 

 feathers dense, soft, velvet-like, filling greater part of the nasal fossae 

 and almost concealing the nostrils; rictal bristles obsolete; head with 

 a long crest of soft, blended feathers, the plumage in general soft and 

 blended; young in first plumage streaked beneath. 



Bill small, rather swollen, slightly hooked and notched at tip; gape 

 broad (its width nearly equal to exposed culmen); gonys less than half 

 as long as mandibular rami, decidedlj^ convex; mandibular rami very 

 narrow. Nostrils nearly concealed by dense, velvety feathering of 

 frontal antia\ which extend anteriorly bej'ond the nostril and com- 

 pletelj- fill the upper portion of the nasal fossa?. Rictal bristles obso- 

 lete. Wing- long and pointed, the longest primaries exceeding sec- 

 ondaries b}' much more than length of tarsus (by nearly as much as 



"According to Mr. Cory the sexes are alike; the female described above may, 

 therefore, be a bird of the preceding year. 

 ^ One specimen. 



