Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. ^ - 



Chelidon erythrogastra (Bodd.). 



Hirundo erythrogastra "Bodd. Tabl. P. E. 45 (1873)." — Cory, List. Bds. 

 W. I. p. 10 (1SS5).— Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. X, p. 137 (1SS5). 



Hirundo americana Lemb. Aves Cuba, p. 44 (1850). 



Hirundo rufa GuNDL. J. f. O. 1855, p. 3; ib. 1861, p. 328 (Cuba). — Brew. 

 Pr. Best. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII. p. 306 (i860). 



Hirundo horreorum A. & E. Newton, Ibis, 1859, P- ^ (St. Croix) ; ib. 

 Handb. Jam. p. 107 (1S81). — Sundv. Oefv. K. Vet. Alcad. p. 584 

 (1S69) (St. Bartholemew). — Gundl. J. f. O. 1872, p. 431 (Cuba). — 

 Lawr. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. I, p. 455 (1878) (Guadeloupe).— Cory, 

 Bds. Bahama I. p. 78 (18S0). 



Recorded from Bahama Islands, Greater Antilles, St. Croix 

 and Guadeloupe, and St. Bartholemew. 



Genus Callichelidon Bryant. 



Callichclidon (Bryant, MSS.) Baird, Rev. Am. Bds. p. 303 (1864). 



Callichelidon cyaneoviridis (Bryant). 



Hirundo cyaneoviridisBKY AST, Pr.Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. iii (1859). 

 — Baird, Rev. Am. Bds. p. 303 (1864). — Salv. Ibis, 1874, p, 307. — 

 Cory, Bds. Bahama I. p. 79 (1S80) ; ib. List Bds. W. I. p. 10 (1SS5). 



Callic/ieidoncya/ieoviridisGKAY, Handl. Bds. I, p. 72 (1869). — Bd. Bwr. & 

 Ridgw. Hist. N. Am. Bds. I, p. 327 (1S74). 



Tachycineta cyatteoviridis Sharpe, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. X, p. 121 (1885). 



Sp. Char. Male : — Above velvet green, shading into steel blue, with purple 

 reflections upon the rump and wings ; a black stripe from the nostrils 

 to the eve ; underparts pure white ; tail forked, the inner webs of the 

 outer feathers edged with dull white. 



Female: — Resembles the male, but the plumage much duller, and 

 showing traces of dusky; bill and feet black. 



Length, 6.40; wing, 4.40; tail, 3.10; tarsus, .42; bill, .15. 

 Habitat. Bahamas. 



Genus Clivicola Forst. 



Clivicola Forst, Syn. Cat. Brit. Bds. 55 (1817). 



Clivicola riparia (Forst.). 



Hirundo riparia Linn. Syst. Nat. I, p. 192 (175S).— Lemb. Aves Cuba, 



p. 47 (1850). 

 Cotyle riparia Gundl. J. f. O. 1S56, p. 5; ib. i86i, p. 330; ib. 1S74, p. 114 



(Cuba).— Brew. Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 306 (iS6o) (Cuba) 



A. &E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 107 (18S1).— Cory, List Bds. 



W. I. p. 10 (1885). 

 Cuba ; Jamaica ; probably wanders throughout the Antilles. 



