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Cory 07i the Birds of the West Indies. 



[ J"iy 



reflections when held to the light; forehead slightly washed with 

 white ; a dark spot in front of the eje ; bill and feet black. 

 The sexes are similar. 



Length, 6; wing, 6; tail, 2.50; tarsus, .40; bill, .20. 

 Habitat. San Domingo, Jamaica, Cuba, Porto Rico, and 

 Guadeloupe. 



Genus Chaetura Steph. 

 Ch(ttura Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool. Birds. XIII, pt. ii, p. 76 (1S25). 



Chaetura dominicana Lawr. 



ChcEttira poliura Lawr. Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. I, p. 62 (1878). 



ChcEttira dominicana Lawr. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. I, p. 255 (1S78) ; ib- 



Pr. U. S. Nat. Mus. I, p. 4S7 (1S7S).— ScL. Ibis, iSSo, p. 75.— Cory, 



List Bds. W. I. p. 17 (1885). 



Sp. Chak. — Entire upper surface dark brown, almost black, showing a 

 faint olive tinge to the feathers when held in the light; under por- 

 tions dark smoky brown, palest on the throat; wings and tail dark 

 brown; rump lighter than than the back; bill and feet black. 

 Length, 4; wing, 3.80; tail, 2. 

 Habitat. Dominica. 



Genus Hemiprocne Nitzsch. 



Hemifrocne Nitzsch, Pterylogr. p. 123 (1840). 



Hemiprocne zonaris (Shaw). 



Hirundo zonaris Shaw, in Mill. 



Cim. Phys. pi. 55. 

 Hirundo albicollis ViEiLL. 



Nouv. Diet. XIV, p. 524. 

 Cypsclus collaris Temm. PI. 



Col. p. 195 (1S20-39). — Max. 



Beitr. Ill, p. 344 (1S31).— 



Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. 



Hist. VII, p. 306 (i860).— 



Albrecht, J. f. O. 1861, p. 



206. — GUNDL, J. f. O. 1874, 



p. 114. 



Hemiprocne collaris Nitzsch, 

 Pterylogr. p. 123 (1840). 



