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CYPSELIDJE. 



ruginous, with blackish shaft-stripca on most of the feathers of the 

 fore neck, and the blackish colour of the upper and under parts is 

 not so black, but rather dark sooty brown. 



Female. Without the rufous collar. 



Younr/. Coloured like the female ; in male birds the rufous 

 colour seems to be gained without a moult, as traces of it soon 

 become visible. 



Ifab. Mexico and Central America, south to Ecuador and Peru. 



a. 2 ad. sk. Mexico. Selater Coll. 



b. 2 -icl- ; c. S Dueuas, July 25 (O. Salvin). Selater Coll. 

 imm. sk. 



d. 2 ad. sk. Duenas, Oct. Tweeddale Coll. 



B}f- <S ^■d. ; </-/>;. Duenas (O. Salvin). Salviu-Godman Coll. 



Imm. sk. 



I, m. (S ad. sk. Chiriqui {Arce). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



n. cS ad. ; o. 5 U.S. Colombia. Salvin-Godman Coll, 



ad. sk. 



p. S <id. sk. Retiro, Col. (Salmon). Selater CoU. 



q. S fd. sk. Ecuador (Lcnvrence). Selater Coll. 



r. cJ ad. sk. Ecuador. Salvin-Godman Cull. 



3. Cypseloides niger. 



Martinet de Saint-Domingue, Bn'ss. Orn. ii. p. 514, pi. 46. fig. 3 



(17C0). 

 Hirundo apus dominicensis, Briss. Orn. ii. p. 514, pi. 46. fig. 3 



(1760). 

 Le petit Martinet noir, Buf. Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 668 (1779). 

 Hirundo nigra, Gtn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 1025 (1788). 

 Cypselus niger, Gosse, B. Jatnaica, p. 63, pi. 10 (1847) ; Bp. Consp. 



i. p. 66 (1850) ; Gundl. Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. 1860, p. 268 (Cuba) ; 



Albrvcht, J.f. O. 1861, p. 207, 1862, p. 194: A. ^ E. Newton, 



Handb. Jamaica, p. 108 (1881). 

 Nephocpetes niger, Gundl. J.f. 0. 1874, p. 115. 

 Cypseloides niger, Scl. P. Z. S. 1865, p. 615 ; id. J.f. 0. 1867, p. 138 ; 



id. Ibis, 1880, p. 74 (Sta. Lucia) ; Lister, Ibis, 1880, p. 41 (St. 



Vincent) ; Cory, Auk, iii. p. 346 (1886) ; id. B. W. hid. p. 140 



(1889). 

 Nephojcetes niger, Cory, B. Haiti S) St. Domingo, p. 88 (1885). 



Adult. Tail emarginato. Entire plumage blackish brown with 

 slight metallic reflexions ; throat a Httle paler ; forehead generally 

 a little M'hitish, caused by light grey edges to the feathers ; spot in 

 front of the eye black : " bill and feet black " (Gosse). Total length 

 about 6 inches, wing 6, tail 2-6, central rectrices nearly half an inch 

 shorter, tarsus 0'45. 



Young. Feathers of the lower parts terminally edged with white 

 Hab. West Indies (San Domingo, Jamaica, Cuba, Porto Pico, 

 Guadeloupe, Martinique, Dominica), and (straggler ?) Merume 

 Mountains in Guiana. 



