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and GoDMAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1883, 223, part (Belize, British Hon- 

 duras) .—Shabpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., x, 1885, 173, part (in synonymy).— 

 Sharps and Wyatt, Mon. Hirund., 1894, 439, part. 



(?) P[TO(7ne] jpurpwea Newton (A. and E. ), Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 107 (Jamaica). 



Progne cryptoleuca Baird, Eeview Am. Birds, May, 1865, 277 (Eemedios, Cuba; 

 coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.).— GuNDLACH, Journ. fiirOrn., 1872, 431.— Coky, List 

 Birds W. I., 1885, 10 (Cuba); Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 114, 152 (do.).— 

 RiDGWAY, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 593.— Chapman, Auk, v, 1888, 399.— 

 American Ornithologists' Union, Check List, 2d ed., 1895, no. 6II.1 



Progne mUs, var. cryptoleuca Baird, Brewer, and Eidgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, 

 i, 1874, 332. 



Progne subis cryptoleuca Eidgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, Aug. 24, 1880, 175; 

 Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 152a. 



IProgne'] cryptoleuca Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 75, no. 894.— Cory, List Birds 

 W. I., 1885, 10. 



P\rogne'\ cryptoleuca Eidgway, Mam. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 459. 



Progne, ? Baikd, Eep. Pacific E. E. Surv., ix, 1858, 923 (Cape Florida). 



Progne • Baied, Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 231a. 



Progne mbis (not Hirundo mbis Linnseus) Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 56 (Cuba) ; Birds 

 W. I., 1889, 70 (do.). 



(?) Progne dominicensis (not Hirundo dominicensis Gmelin ?) Cory, Auk, viii, 1891. 

 294 (Cuba). 



PROGNE DOMINICENSIS (Gmelin). 

 CARIBBEAN MARTIN. 



Adult male. — Uniform glossj' steel blue, or violaceous steel blue, 

 the median portion of breast, abdomen, anal region, and under tail- 

 coverts immaculate white; the longer under tail-coverts sometimes 

 with a central, mostly concealed, space of dusky gray, the lateral 

 series sometimes with outer webs dusky gray edged with white; wings 

 and tail black, faintly glossed with bluish; bill black; iris brown; legs 

 and feet brownish black or deep brown (in dried skins); length (skins), 

 163-191 (178); wing, 134-119 (143.5); tail, 70-79 (74.2), forked for 

 15-22 (19); exposed culmen, 10-12 (11.2); width of bill at frontal 

 antise, 8.5-10 (9.4); tarsus, 13.5-15 (14.1); middle toe, 14-16 (15)." 



Adult female. — Above glossy dark steel blue or violaceous blue, 

 changing to dark sooty brown on forehead; wings and tail black, 

 faintly glossed with greenish blue; sides of head and neck grayish 

 brown or sooty, like forehead, the auricular region more or less glossed 

 or overlaid by steel blue; malar region, chin, throat, chest, sides, 

 flanks, axillars, and under wing-coverts plain deep sooty gray or 

 grayish brown, the chin and throat sometimes distinctly paler, the 

 feathers of chest (sometimes of throat also) indistinctly tipped with 

 pale gray; median portion of breast, abdomen, anal region, and under 

 tail-coverts immaculate white; bill black, or brownish black; iris 

 brown; legs and feet deep brown or dusky (in dried skins); length, 

 (skins), 162-187 (167); wing, 130-148 (140); tail, 66-76 (71.9), forked 

 for 14-20.5 (18.3); exposed culmen, 10-12 (11.1); width of bill at 



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