84 BULLETIN 86, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



The present race is a summer resident from April to October on 

 all of the islands of the Greater Antilles. There are eggs in the 

 United States National Museum collected from May 9 to July 7, 

 inclusive. Like Chordeiles virginianus vlcinus^ however, it disap- 

 pears in autumn, but it probably winters with the Bahama Islands 

 form in South America. 



The type of Chordeiles virginianus minor,''- which was collected by 

 Dr. Juan Gundlach in Cuba, we have not been able to examine, but 

 there seems to be no doubt that it represents the breeding form of 

 this island, as the original description clearly indicates. The type of 

 Chordeiles gundlachii Lawrence,' from Cuba, which was in the col- 

 lection of George N. Lawrence, and is now in the American Museum 

 of Natural History, is a typical specimen of Chordeiles 'virginianus 

 minor in the rufous, or rather tawny, phase. At present it has three 

 old labels, the first of which bears the inscription, in George N. Law- 

 rence' handwriting, " Chordeiles minor Cab. $ Cuba " ; the second 

 " Chordeiles gundlachii " ; and on the reverse, " Type," also in Mr. 

 Lawrence' chirography ; and the third, " Chordeiles gaindlachi Law- 

 rence $ adultus." The name Chordeiles gundlachii should, of course, 

 be synonymized with Chordeiles virginianus minor. 



Specimens examined. — Total number 37, from the following locali- 

 ties in the West Indies : 



Cuba.—S^n Diego de los Banos (Apr. 12, 16, and 18, 1900) ; Hol- 

 guin (May 31, 1904; June 11, 1904; Aug. 2, 1905). 



Isle of Pines. — Nueva Gerona (June 29 and 30, 1900; July 3 and 5, 

 1900) ; Hospital Spring (1904) ; Almacigos (Apr. 19, 1904) ; [no spe- 

 cific locality] (May 25, 1904). 



Jamaica. — Hope Gardens, near Kingston (May 28, 1904) ; Phoenix 

 Park, St. Ann Parish (July 25, 1865) ; Great Salt Pond, near Span- 

 ishtown (August, 1862) ; Bath (incubating female, July 7, 1902) ; 

 Passage Fort, near Spanish town (June, 1863) ; Mayfield, St. Andrew 

 Parish (Apr. 18, 1879; June 25, 1874); Troy, 2,200 feet altitude 

 (June 27, 1904). 



Porto Rico. — [No further locality specified.] 



1 CJiordcdiles minor- Cabanis, Journ. f. Ornith., January, 1856, p. 5. 



2 Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., vol. 6, December, 1856, p. 165. 



