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Cory oh f/ie Birds of the West Indies. 



Progne dominicensis (Gmel.). 



Hit-undo dominicensis Gmel. Syst. Nat. I, p. 1025 (1788). — Vieill. Ois- 



Am. Sept. p. 59 (1807). 

 Hirundo albiventris Vieill. Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat. XIV, p. 533 (1817). 

 Progne dominicensis Boie, Isis, 1S26, p. 971. — Gosse, Bds. Jam. p. 69 



C1S47).— Bp. Consp. I, p. 337 (1S50).— Albreciit, J. f. O. 1862, 



p. 194.— March, Pr. Acad. Nat Sci. Phila. 1863, p. 295.— Taylor, 



Ibis, 1864, p. 166. — Baird, Rev. Am. Bds. p. 279 (1S64).— Gundl. 



J. f. O. 1872, p. 419; ib. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, p. 196 (1878). 



— SCL. &SALV. Norn. Avium Neotr. p. 14 (1S73).— Lawr. Pr. U. S. 



Nat. Mus. I, p. 4S7 (187S).— Lister, Ibis, 18S0, p. 40.— A. & E. 



Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 107 (1S81). — Cory, Bds. Haiti cS: San 



Dominigo,p. 44 (1S85) ; ib. List Bds. W. I. p. 10 (1885).— Sharpe, 



Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. X, p. 176 (1885). 

 Hirundo {Progne) dominicensis Bryant, Pr. Best. Soc. Nat. Hist. XI, p. 



94 (1866). 

 Progne subis. var. dominicensis Bd. Bwr. & Ridgw. Hist. N. Am. Bds. I, 



p. 328 (1S74J. 



Sp. Char. Male: — Entire upper surface, throat, and sides steel blue, show- 

 ing purplish reflections in some lights; rest of underparts white; 

 quills and tail dark brown, the feathers having a faint bluish tinge 

 on the outer webs ; crissum dull white ; bill and feet black. 



Female: — Upper surface as in the male ; throat and sides ashy 

 brown ; otherwise resembling the male. 



Length, 7; wing, 5.60; tail, 3.10; tarsus, .50; bill, .50. 

 Habitat. San Domingo and Antilles. , 



Progne subis (Linn.). 



Hirundo subis 'Lii<it^. Syst. Nat. p. 192 (1758). 



Hirundo purpurea LiNN. Syst. Nat. I, p. 344 (1766). 



Progne purpurea D'Orb. in La Sagra's Hist. Nat Cuba, Ois. p. 94 (1S40). — 



GuNDL. J. f. O. 1856, p. 3; ib. 1861, p. 32S (Cuba).— Brewer, Pr. 



Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 306 (1S60) (Cuba). 

 Progne cryptoleuca Baird, Rev. Am. Bds. p. 277 (1864). — Gundl. J. f. O. 



1872, p. 431.— Cory, List Bds. \V. I. p. 10 (1885). 

 Progne subis var. cryptoleuca Bd. Bwr. & Ridgvv. Hist. N. Am. Bds. I, p. 



322 (1874). 



Cuba. 



Genus Petrochelidon Caban. 

 Petrochelidon Cabaxis, Mus Hein. I, 1850-51, p. 47. 



