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reflections when held to the light; forehead slightly washed with 

 white; a dark spot in front of the eye ; bill and feet black. 

 The sexes are similar. 



Length, 6; wing, 6; tail, 2.50; tarsus, .40; bill, .20. 

 Habitat. San Domingo, Jamaica, Cuba, Porto Rico, and 

 Guadeloupe. 



Genus Chaetura Steph. 

 ChcBtura Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool. Birds, XIII, pt. ii, p. 76 (1825). 



Chaetura dominicana Lawr. 



ChcBtura poliura Lawr. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. I, p. 62 (1878). 



CkcEttira dominicatia Lawr. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. I, p. 255 (1S78) ; ib. 



Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. I, p. 4S7 (187S).— ScL. Ibis, 1S80, p. 75.— Cory, 



List Bds. W. I. p. 17 (1885). 



Sp. Chak. — Entire upper surface dark brown, almost black, showing a 

 faint olive tinge to the feathers when held in the light; under por- 

 tions dark smoky brown, palest on the throat; wings and tail dark 

 brown ; rump lighter than than the back ; bill and feet black. 

 Length, 4; wing, 3.80; tail, 2. 



Habitat. Dominica. 



Genus Hemiprocne Nitzsch. 

 Hemiprocne Nitzsch, Pterylogr. p. 123 (1840). 



Hemiprocne zonaris (Shaw). 



Hirundo zonaris Shaw, in Mill. 



Cim. Phj-s. pi. 55. 

 Hirundo albicollis \'IEILL. 



Nouv. Diet. XIV, p. 524. 

 Cyfsclus collaris Temm. PI. 



Col. p. 195 (1820-39). — Max. 



Beitr. Ill, p. 344 (1S31).— 



Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. 



Hist. VII, p. 306 (1S60).— 



Albrecht, J. f O. 1861, p. 



206.— GuxDL, J. f O. 1S74, 



p. 114. 



Hemiprocne collaris Nitzsch, 

 Pterylogr. p. 123 (1840). 



