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114. Progne cryptoleuca Baird. Cuban Martin. 



Progne ci-yptoleuca Bangs & Zappey, Am. Nat., XXXIX, 1905, 209 (Manigua 

 fide Palmer and Riley). — Read, Oologist, XXVIII, 1911, 12 (I. of Pines). — 

 Read, I. of Pines News, VI, Apr. 4, 1914 (I. of Pines, summer; habits). 



"Cuban Martin" Read, Forest and Stream, LXXIII, 1909, 452 (I. of Pines). — 

 Read, Oologist, XXVI, 1909, 75 (I. of Pines); XXVIII, 1911, 5 (McKinley; 

 nesting), 7 (I. of Pines; migr.), 11 (Nuevas River), 114 (West McKinley); 

 XXX, 1913, 125 (Santa Barbara; migr.), 128, pi. (Santa Barbara; fig. of nesting 

 site), 130 (I. of Pines, summer; migr.). 



Two specimens: Los Indios. 



Swallows believed to belong to this species were repeatedly observed 

 along the Casas River at Nueva Gerona, but no specimens were pro- 

 cured except at Los Indios, where a pair were shot on April 12. Mr. 

 Zappey noted it on several occasions, and Messrs. Palmer and Riley 

 found it in small colonies in the pines at Manigua. Mr. Read appears 

 to be the only observer to have met with it in any numbers. He states 

 that it is a summer resident only, appearing as early sometimes as 

 February 8 (1914), March 12 (1912), and March 28 (1910), and re- 

 maining until about the first of November. This agrees with what is 

 known concerning its seasonal status in Cuba, where Gundlach says 

 that it disappears towards the end of August and does not return until 

 February. What becomes of it in the intervening months remains an 

 unexplained mystery, since it is a species scarcely known outside of 

 its recognized breeding-range. Mr. Read has also had the good fortune 

 to find it breeding. The nest appears to be built in an old woodpeck- 

 er's-hole in a bottle-palm or pine-tree, and the four or five white eggs 

 are laid in May. 



115. Setophaga ruticilla (Linnaeus). Redstart. 



Muscicapa ruticilla Poey, Mem. Hist. Nat. Cuba, 1854, 426 (Nueva Gerona, fide 

 Gundlach). 



Setophaga ruticilla Cory, Cat. W. Indian Birds, 1892, 120 (I. of Pines, in geog. 

 distr.). — Bangs & Zappey, Am. Nat., XXXIX, 1905, 211 (I. of Pines, March; 

 Poey's record). — Read, Oologist, XXVIII, 1911, 12 (I. of Pines). — Read, 

 Bird-Lore, XIII, 1911, 44 (McKinley); XV, 1913, 45 (Santa Barbara). 



"American Redstart" Read, Forest and Stream, LXXIII, 1909. 452 (I. of Pines). 

 — Read, Oologist, XXVI, 1909, 58, 75 (I. of Pines; XXVII, 1910, 5 (Nuevas 

 River), 15 (I. of Pines; migr.); XXVIII, 191 1, 5 (Santa Barbara Mountain, 

 etc.), 7 (Caiiada Mountains, etc.; migr.), 113 (West McKinley); XXX, 1913, 

 123 (McKinley), 130 (I. of Pines, winter). — Read, I. of Pines News, VI, Feb. 14, 

 1914 (I. of Pines). 



Six specimens: Los Indios. 



