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(Specimen in United States National Museum taken July 28.) 

 Peters did not report this swallow from the north coast. 



The first specimen known from Haiti is one taken by A. E. 

 Younglove on June 7, 1886, which according to the collector was 

 secured in the " mountains " near Port-au-Prince. This bird, an 

 adult in full plumage, is the type of Hirundo euchrysea (var. clonn- 

 inicensis) of Bryant, a name antedated by an earlier Hb^undo dom- 

 inicensis of Gmelin so that the species is known from Cory's later 

 description as sclateri. 



Cory does not mention seeing the species in Haiti and the next 

 records known to us for that republic are a female shot on the slopes 

 of La Selle above Fonds Verettes by Abbott May 1, and a male taken 

 on Morne Tranchant near Furcy May 29, 1920. 



On April 8, 1927, as Wetmore came to Kenskoff on the trail from 

 Petionville a swallow came swiftly past to be recognized as the 

 present species, which proved to be common over the slopes three 

 miles to the eastward. At his camp on the Riviere Jaquisy on the 

 following morning numbers were seen and one was taken, while on 

 La Selle from April 10 to 15 they were observed regularly and 

 and several were collected. The open pinelands seemed especially 

 suited to them while they ranged also over the open summits of 

 Morne Cabaio and Morne La Visite and through the clearings 

 and bush grown pastures of the Jardins Bois Pin. Always pleasing 

 in appearance their soft calls added to their attractiveness. At 

 this season they were mating and were busily examing old 

 woodpecker holes and other cavities in dead trees in which they 

 evidently nested. Often they were found resting on the limbs of the 

 dead trunks containing their nesting sites. Several were observed 

 on April 17 in crossing the slopes of the 'deep valley on the trail 

 from Chapelle Faure in Nouvelle Touraine to Kenskoif. On April 

 24 two probably a pair were found at the Bassin Zime in the edge 

 of the hills beyond Hinche, which suggests that they breed through 

 the extensive tracts of open pine forests that cover the higher slopes 

 beyond. The calls of this species are closely similar to those of the 

 tree swallow of North America to which, as well as to the violet- 

 green swallow, it is closely allied. Bond found them common on 

 La Selle and La Hotte and notes a nest found June 5, 1928, in an 

 old woodpecker hole in a dead pine 15 meters from the ground. He 

 collected one on Morne Tranchant, 



This swallow is of medium size, metallic green above, and pure 

 white below, with the sides of the head dull black, this color infring- 

 ing on the sides of the throat. The tail is fairly long and is notched 

 at the end. The young in first plumage are duller above with a 

 band of gray across the breast. 

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