l6o BROOKLYN INSTITUTE MUSEUM. SCIENCE BULLETIN 2. 6. 



PROGNE CHALYBEA CHALYBEA (Gmelin). 



Hirundo chalybea Gm., Syst. Nat. I. 1788. p. 1026. 

 Progne chalybea Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 14. 



Native name Golondrina. Common at Altagracia, Caicara and 

 Quiribana de Caicara from December to April. Immature birds 

 were collected at Las Guacas on the San Feliz River (near the Cuchi- 

 vero River) in May. 



Klages collected specimens on the Caura (Am. Mus. Coll.) in 

 July and August. 



PHAEOPROGNE 1 TAPERA IMMACULATA Chapman 



Hirundo taper a L., Syst. Nat. ed. 12. I. 1766. p. 345. 



Progne tapera Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 14. 



Phaeoprogne tapera immaculata Chapman. Bull. Am. Mus Nat. Hist. 

 XXXI. 1912. p. 156 (Type $ Chicoral, Tolima, Colombia, in Ameri- 

 can Museum of Natural History). 



A single specimen of this species was collected at Caicara, July 

 4th, 1898. None were observed on my more recent expeditions. 



In the American Museum is a series of ten specimens collected by 

 Klages sent from Suapure and Maripa on the Caura River, and two 

 examples of Progne chalybea chalybea, one from La Union and the 

 other from Maripa, indicating that this is th^. common form on the 

 Caura, while my own experience showed P. chalybca to be the common 

 form along the middle stretches of the Orinoco. 



The American Museum specimens of P. tapera immaculata from 

 the Caura river were collected during April, May and December. 



STELGIDOPTERYX RUFICOLLIS AEQUALIS Bangs. 

 Stelgidopteryx ruficollis aequalis Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club. 



II. 1901. p. 58 (Type, Santa Marta, Colombia). 

 Stelgidopteryx ruficollis uropygialis Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 15. 



Common all along the middle and lower Orinoco throughout the 

 year. Specimens were collected in February, March, May, June and 

 August. 



Two specimens in juvenal plumage were taken at Caicara during 

 June. These young birds are interesting in that one does not show 



^Phaeoprogne, Baird Review Am. Birds 1865. pp. 272, 283. 



