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Progne cryptoletica BAIRD. Cuban Martin. [611.1.] 



Progne. cryptoleuca BAIRD, Review Amer. Birds, 1865, 277. (Remedies, 

 Cuba.) 



RANGE. Cuba; occasional or accidental in southern Florida. 



Progne chalybea (GMELIN). Gray-breasted Martin. [611.2.] 

 Hirundo chalybea GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 1026. (Cayenne.) 



RANGE. Breeds from the Lower Rio Grande in Texas south 

 through Mexico and Central America to Peru, Bolivia, and southern 

 Brazil. 



GENUS PETROCHELIDON CABANIS. 



Petrochelidon CABANIS, Mus. Hein., I, 1851, 47. Type, by subs, desig., 

 Hirundo melanogaster SWAINSON (Gray, 1855). 



Petrochelidon lunifrons (SAY). 

 RANGE. North America, migrating to South America in winter. 



a. Petrochelidon lunifrons lunifrons (SAY). Cliff Swallow. [612.] 



Hirundo lunifrons SAY, in Long's Exped., II, 1823, 47 (note). (Near 

 Canon City, Colorado.) 



RANGE. North America. Breeds from lower edge of the Arctic to Lower 

 Austral zone from central Alaska, upper Yukon Valley, north central Macken- 

 zie, southern Keewatin, northern Ontario, central Quebec, Anticosti Island, 

 and Cape Breton Island south over nearly all of the United States except 

 Florida and the Rio Grande Valley (casual as a breeder south of lat. 38, 

 east of long. 97); also along the coast district of western Mexico to Tepic; 

 migrates through Central America and probably winters in Brazil and 

 Argentina. 



b. Petrochelidon lunifrons tachina OBERHOLSER. Lesser Cliff Swallow. 



[612a.] 



Petrochelidon lunifrons tachina OBERHOLSER, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XVI, 

 Feb. 21, 1903, 15. (Langtry, Texas.) 



RANGE. Texas and Mexico. Breeds in western Texas, the Rio Grande 

 Valley, and through eastern Mexico to Vera Cruz ; winter home unknown but 

 undoubtedly in South America; migrates through Costa Rica and Panama. 



