c6 Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. [January 



Progne dominicensis (Gmel.). 



Hirundo dominicensis Gmel. Sjst. Nat. I, p. 1025 (17SS).— ViEiLL. Ois. 



Am. Sept. p. 59 (1S07). 

 Hirundo albiventris ViEiLL. Nouv. Diet. Hist. Nat. XIV, p. 533 (1S17). 

 Progne dominicensis BoiE, Isis, 1S26, p. 971.^ — -GossE. Bds. Jam. p. 69 



(1847). — J^P- Consp. I, p. 337 (1850).— Albrecht, J. f. O. 1862, 



p. 194. — March, Pr. Acad. Nat Sci. Phila. 1863. p. 295. — Taylor, 



Ibis, 1S64, p. 166.— Baird, Rev. Am. Bds. p. 279 (1864).— Gundl. 



J. f. O. 1872, p. 419; ib. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, p. 196 (1S78). 



— ScL. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 14 (1873). — Lavvr. Pr. U. S. 



Nat. Mus. I, p. 4S7 (1S7S).— Lister, Ibis, 18S0, p. 40.— A. & E. 



Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 107 (i88i).- — Cory, Bds. Haiti & San 



Dominigo,p. 44 (1S85) ; ih. List Bds. W. I. p. 10 (1885). — Sharpe, 



Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus. X, p. 176 (1885). 

 Hirundo (^Progne) dominicensis Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. XI, p. 



94 (1866). 

 Progtie stibis. var. dominicensis Bd. Bvvr. & Ridgw. Hist. N. Am. Bds. I, 



p. 328 (1S74). 



Sp. Char. Mule: — Entire upper surface, throat, and sides steel blue, show- 

 ing purplish reflections in some liglits; rest of underparts white; 

 quills and tail dark brown, the feathers having a faint bluish tinge 

 on the outer webs; crissum dull white; bill and feet black. 



Female: — Upper surface as in the male; throat and sides ashy 

 brown; otherwise resembling the male. 



Length, 7; wing, 5.60; tail, 3.10; tarsus, .50; bill, .50. 

 Habitat. vSan Domingo and Antilles. 



Progne subis (Linn.). 



Hirundo subis Linn. Syst. Nat. p. 192 (1758). 



Hirundo purpurea Linn. Syst. Nat. I, p. 344 (1766). 



Progne purpurea D'Orb. in La Sagra's Hist. Nat Cuba, Ois. p. 94 (1S40). — 



Gundl. J. f. O. 1856, p. 3 ; ib. 1861, p. 328 (Cuba).— Brewer, Pr. 



Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 306 (i860) (Cuba). 

 Progne cryptoleuca Baird, Rev. Am. Bds. p. 277 (1864). — Gundl. J. f O. 



1872, p. 431.— Cory, List Bds. W. 1. p. 10 (1885). 

 Progne subis var. cryptoleuca Bd. Bwr. & RiDGW. Hist. N. Am. Bds. I, p. 



322 (1874). 

 Habitat. Cuba. 



Genus Petrochelidon Caban. 



Petrochelidon Cabanis, Mus Hein. I, 1850-51, p. 47. 



