PETROCHELIDON FULVA (FieilL). 



CARIBBEAN CLIFF-SWALLOW. 



ffirtmdo fulva, Vieill. Ois. Arner. Sept. p. 62, pi. 32 (1807); Gray, Cat. Fissir. Brit. 



Mus. p. 24 (1847); Tbien. J. f. O. 1857, p. 149; March, Proc. Philad. Acad. 



1863, p. 295; Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H. x. p. 222 (1866). 

 Cecropis fulva, Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 315, 1844, p. 173; Less. Compl. Buff. viii. p. 498 



(1837). 

 Hirunclo melanog aster (nee Swains.), Denny, P. Z. S. 1847, p. 38. 

 Hirimdo pceciloma, Gosse, B. Jamaica, p. 64 (1817); Osburn, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 63; 



Gray, Hand-1. B. i. p. 71, no. S37 (1S69). 

 Herse fulva, pt., Bp. Consp. i. p. 341 (1850). 

 Hirunclo coronata, Lembeye, Av. Cuba, p. 45 (1850). 

 Petrochelidon fulva, Cab. Mus. Hein. Tb. i. p. 47 (1850) ; Cass. Cat. Hirund. Mus. 



Philad. Acad. p. 4 (1853) ; Gundl. J. f. O. 1856, p. 3, & 1861, p. 328 ; Sclater, 



P. Z. S. 1861, p. 72; id. Cat. Amer. B. p. 40 (1802); Baird, Review Arner. B. 



p. 291 (1865) ; Scl. & Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 14 (1873) ; Gundl. Orn. Cuba, 



p. 82 (1876) ; A. & E. Newt. Handb. Jamaica, 1881, p. 107 ; Salv. & Godm. Biol. 



Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 228 (1SS3) ; Cory, B. Haiti & S. Domingo, p. 47 (1884) ; 



Sharpe, Cat. Birds in Brit. Mus. s. p. 195 (1885) ; Cory, List B. West Indies, 



p. 10 (1886) ; id. Auk, iii. p. 57 (1886). 

 Petrochelidon pceciloma, Baird, R-eview Amer. B. p. 292 (1865). 



P. uropygio rufo ; gula rufa ; fascia frontali castanea. ; torque nuchali angusta rufa regioni auriculari 

 concolore ; meuto minirne nigro ; macula jugulari nigra nulla; pectore rufo, hypochondriis 

 coucolore. 



Hub. in provincia. Yueatanica America centralis et in Panama, prrecipue tamen in insulis Antillcnsibus, 

 'Cuba/ ' Jamaica/ 'Porto Rico/ et ' San Domingo ' dictis. 



Adult male. General colour above glossy steel-blue, the feathers of the mantle and back edged with 

 ashy white, giving a strongly streaked appearance ; wing-coverts and quills blackish, with a slight 

 greenish gloss, the inner secondaries edged with ashy whitish at the ends ; lower back and rump 

 rich chestnut ; upper tail-coverts brown with a slight greenish gloss and narrowly edged with 

 ashy whitish ; tail-feathers blackish brown, slightly glossed with greenish ; crown of head glossy 

 steel-blue, separated from the mantle by a narrow collar of pale rufous, followed by a second 

 collar of ashy brown like the sides of the neck ; a broad frontal band of deep chestnut ; lores 

 velvety black, with pale rufous bases; cheeks, sides of face, and ear-coverts pale ferruginous, 

 joining the collar round the nape ; throat and chest, as well as the sides of the body and flanks, 

 ferruginous, slightly mixed with ashy brown on the sides of the breast and flanks; vent ferru- 



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