PROGNE DOMINICENSIS (Gm.). 



CARIBBEAN PUBPLE MARTIN. 



Hirondelle cle S. Domingue, Briss. Om. ii. p. 493 (1760). 



JELlrondelle cVAmerique, Daubent. PI. Enl. vii. pi. 545. fig. 1. 



Le Grand Martinet noir a ventre blanc, Montb. Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 669 (1799). 



St. Domingo Sioallow, Lath. Gen. Syn. ii. pt. 2, p. 573 (17S3). 



Hirundo dominicensis, Gin. Syst. Nat. i. p. 1025 (1788) ; Vieill. Ois. Anter. Sept. 



p. 59, pis. 28, 29 (1S07) ; E. C. Taylor, Ibis, 1861, p. 166. 

 Hirundo albiventris, Vieill. N. Diet. d'Hist. Nat. xiv. p. 533 (1817). 

 Progne dominicensis, Gray, Gen. B. i. p. 59 (1815) ; Jard. Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 



xviii. p. 120 (1846) ; Gosse, B. Jamaica, p. 69 (1847) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 337 (1850) ; 



Sclater, P. Z. S. 1857, p. 232 ; March, Pr. Philad. Acad. 1863, p. 295 ; Baird, 



Review Amer. B. p. 279 (1864) ; Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. x. p. 252, xi. 



p. 94 (1866) ; Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 74, no. 891 (1869) ; Scl. & Salv. Nomencl. 



Av. Neotr. p. 14 (1873) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1876, p. 14; Lawr. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. i. 



pp. 56, 269, 487 (1878) ; Gundl. J. f. O. 1874, p. 311 ; A. & E. Newt. Handb. 



Jamaica, 1881, p. 107 ; Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 153 (1882) ; Cory, B. Haiti and 



St. Domingo, p. 44 (1SS4) ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds in Brit. Mus. x. p. 176 (1885) ; 



Cory, List B. West Indies, p. 10 (1S86) ; id. B. West Ind. p. 70 (1889). 



P. pectore et abdornine albis : gutture toto et prtepectore lsete purpureis dorso concoloribus. 

 Hab. in insulis maris Caribbei. 



Adult male. General colour above glossy purplish blue ; the scapulars and lesser wing-coverts like the 

 back ; median and greater wing-coverts, bastard-wing, primary-coverts, and quills blackish, ex- 

 ternally glossed with dull blue, the inner webs of the quills internally brown ; tail-feathers blue- 

 black, browner on the inner webs ; lores velvety black ; sides of face, ear- coverts, cheeks, throat, 

 chest, and sides of body aud flanks glossy purplish blue like the back ; centre of breast, abdomen, 

 and under tail-coverts pure white, the lateral under tail-coverts with a shade of dusky slate-colour 

 towards the end of the outer web ; the blue breast-feathers adjoining the white centre of the body 

 either edged with white, or else white on the outer web and blue on the inner; thighs dusky 

 brown ; on the sides of the breast a few concealed silky-white plumes, adjoining which on the 

 sides of the back is another patch of silky white, which is entirely hidden by the closed wings; 

 axillaries and under wing-coverts glossed with blue ; quills dusky blackish below : " iris dark 

 hazel" (Gosse). Total length 7 inches, culmen O'o, wing 5"G5, tail 325, tarsus 055. 



Adult female. Duller in colour than the male, but having the same white belly and under tail-coverts. 

 General colour of the upper surface brown, glossed with purplish blue or dull purplish blue, with 



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