BIRDS OF CUBA III 



Cuba. The nest is of mud, mixed with grasses and feathers, and is not so 

 enclosed as with our Cliff Swallows. These Swallows, ffying mostly at 

 dawn and eve, generally remind one in habits of CoUocalias. They look 

 like Cliff Swallows, but lack the forehead marking. 



212. Riparia riparia riparia (Linne). 

 Bank Swallow. 



Very rare. Gundlach collected two from a band flying over a lake near 

 Cardenas in April, 1845. 



213. Hirundo rustica erythrogaster Boddaert. 

 Barn Swallow; Golondrina. 



In late August or early September flocks of Barn Swallows pass over 

 Cuba, staying but a few hours or a few days at most. They repass in late 

 April or early May. I have seen them flying back and forth over cane 

 fields and savannas, swarming on the telegraph wires and sometimes 

 very plentiful about the open saw-grass of the Cienaga, crowds one evening 

 filling the air and next morning not one to be seen. 



214. Iridoprocne bicolor (Vieillot). 

 Tree Swallow. 



Tree Swallows pass through Cuba on the spring and autumn migra- 

 tions in enormous numbers, and not a few remain through the winter. 

 I shot several on February 6 and 8, 1913, in the Cienaga, and had many 

 chances to get others. W. Cameron Forbes shot one at Nipe Bay on 

 March 8, 1914. A favorite haunt is about the sugar warehouses and factories 

 where for obvious reasons flies abound. 



