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RIPARIA RIPARIA RIP ARIA (Linnaeus) 



BANK SWALLOW, GOLONDRINA 



Hirundo riparia Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, vol. 1, 1758, p. 192 (Sweden). — 

 Ritter, Naturh. Reis. Westind. Insel Hayti, 1836, p. 156 (Haiti; specimen). 



Migrant from North America ; apparently very rare. 



The only record of the bank swallow at present is that of Ritter 

 who says that he secured a specimen in Haiti during his travels there 

 in 1820 and 1821. The species is recorded as a migrant in Porto 

 Rico, Cuba, and Jamaica so its occurrence in Hispaniola is to be 

 expected. 



The bank swallow is small in size, brown above, and white below, 

 with a brown band across the breast. It will be confused with no 

 other species of the region as the dark band across the light breast 

 distinguishes it from all except the young of Sclater's swallow, 

 which is larger and much darker, with a metallic gloss above. 



HIRUNDO ERYTHROGASTER Boddaert 

 BARN SWALLOW, GOLONDRINA, HIRONDELLE 



Hirundo erythrogaster Boddaert, Tabl. Planch. Enl., 1783, p. 45 (Cay- 

 enne).— Beebe, Zool. Soc. Bull., vol. 30, 1927, p. 141; Beneath Tropic Seas, 1928, 

 p. 223 (Bizoton). 



Hirundo erythrogastra, Bartsch, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, vol. 30, July 

 27, 1917, p. 132 (listed).— Moltoni, Att. Soc. Ital. Scienz. Nat., vol. 68, 1929, 

 p. 320 (San Juan, specimens). 



Hirundo rustica erythrogastra, Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 

 vol. 80, 1928, p. 507 (Fort Liberty ). 



Migrant from North America ; fairly common on the coastal plain. 



The only records for the Dominican Republic at present are those 

 of Ciferri, who collected specimens for Moltoni at San Juan Sep- 

 tember 18, 1928, and September 7, 1929, and Abbott who found these 

 swallows numerous at Catalinita Island from September 10 to 12, 

 1919, and says that he saw them flying southward over the ocean 

 toward South America. He observed that they were common at 

 Saona Island from September 12 to 18 of the same year. 



In Haiti in 1917 Bartsch found the barn swallow at Petit Goave, 

 April 8 and 9, near Trou des Roseaux, April 14, and about Jeremie, 

 April 15 and 16. Abbott shot two females at Baie des Moustiques, 

 May 5, 1917, and Beebe notes that three flew about his schooner 

 anchored off the Bizoton wharves on February 20, 1927. On April 1, 

 1927, Wetmore recorded a dozen circling with native cliff swallows 

 over marshy meadows at the Etang Miragoane, and on April 19 saw 

 two at Bizoton. Bond saw several at Fort Liberte April 30, 1928. 



