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of the Crossbill. The crosses which surmount all Latin churches are 

 constantly preferred perches. 



Cryptoleuca is very similar in flight and appearance to our Purple 

 Martin, but in the hand the white bases of the interscapular feathers are 

 conspicuous. 



210. Petrochelidon lunifrons lunifrons (Say). 

 Cliff Swallow. 



A single Cliff Swallow was killed by Ramsden at Guantanamo 

 November ii, 191 1. It was one of a flock which were hawking about with 

 Barn Swallows. There is no other Cuban record (see Auk, vol. 29, p. 396, 

 1912). 



211. Petrochelidon fulva cavicola Barbour and Brooks. 

 Cuban Cave Swallow; Golondrina.' 



Mr. Brooks and I have shown (Proc. New Engl. Z06I. Club, vol 6, 

 1917, p. 52) that Haiti, Jamaica and Cuba are each inhabited by an easily 

 distinguishable race of Cave Swallow. 



In Cuba they arrive in late February and gather in large flocks about 

 the caves in which they nest. Occasionally abandoned buildings are 

 occupied, or even the recesses of a deep veranda, but caves, sometimes 

 open but equally often deep and dark, are the usual breeding-places chosen. 

 A favorite spot is where the river disappears into a limestone cavern right 

 in the town of San Antonio de los Banos. This was an impossible place 

 to shoot, but Brooks and I found that, when we crept into the cave at 

 night and then flashed an electric torch, the birds came in swarms clinging 

 to our hats and clothes, as phototropic as moths. We soon had plenty, 

 chosen by hand. A nesting-place near Bolondron is in a deep, steep, almost 

 perpendicular, tubular cave mouth, which at first looked like a haunt 

 for bats but nothing else. The old wooden hotel at Herradura had a few 

 nesting under the eaves, and swarms inhabit the great caverns under 

 Morro Castle, perched at the mouth of the bottle harbor of Santiago de 



' All Swallows without exception are called Colondrina. 



