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frontal antiae, 9-10 (9.6); tarsus, 14-15 (14.4); middle toe, 14-16 

 (14.8).« 



Irwmatv/re male. — Exactly like the adult female in coloration. 



Young male and female {first year). — Similar to the immature male 

 (second year) and adult female, but upper parts much more faintly 

 glossed with steel blue. 



West Indies, except Cuba* and Bahamas. (Haiti; Jamaica; Porto 

 Rico; Hat Island; St. Martins; St. Eustatius; St. Christopher; Domin- 

 ica; Martinique; Santa Lucia; St. Vincent; Grenada; Barbados.) 

 Island of Tobago. 



[Himndo] dominicensi Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1788, 1025 (based on Sirondelle de 

 8. Domingue Brisson, Orn., ii, 493; Hirondelle d'Amerique Daubenton, PI. 

 Enl., pi. 545, fig. 1). 



Hirundo dominicemis Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept., i, 1807, 59, pis. 28, 29 (Santo 

 Domingo).— (?) Jaedine, Ann. & Mag. N. H., xviii, 1846, 120 (Tobago; 

 breeding). — Taylok, Ibis, 1864, 166 (Porto Rico). — Bryant, Proc. Bost. 

 Soc. N. H., X, 1866, 251 (Porto Rico); xi, 1866, 94 (Santo Domingo). 



Progne dominicenm Gosse, Birds, Jamaica, 1847, 69.— Salle, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1857, 232 (Santo Domingo).— Sclater, Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 38, part 

 (Jamaica). — March, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1863, 295 (Jamaica). — 

 Baird, Review Am. Birds, 1865, 279 (Jamaica; Porto Rico; Santo 

 Domingo). — Gundlach, Journ. fur Orn., 1872, 419 (Porto Rico); Anal. Soc. 

 Esp. Hist. Nat., vii, 1878, 196 (do.).— Coues, Bird Col. Val., 1878, 446, foot- 

 note (synonymy). — Lawrence, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 56 (Dominica), 

 190 (St. Vincent); i, 1879, 269 (Grenada), 354 (Martinique), 487.— Allen, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, v, 1880, 166 (Santa Lucia).— Lister, Ibis, 1880, 40 

 (St. Vincent).— Cory, Birds Haiti and San Dom., 1885, 44, pi. 21, fig. 2; Auk, 

 iii, 1886, 56; viii, 1891,47 (St. Eustatius), 48 (St. Christopher), 294 (Cuba«); 



o Twelve specimens. 



Specimens from different islands average, re.=pectively, as follows: 



6The species is recorded from Cuba by Mr. Cory (Auk, vui, 1891, 294), but in 

 view of the circumstance that the bird was apparently merely observed ( ' 'recorded' ' ) , 

 not collected, there is a possibility the species may have been P. cryptoleuca. 



« Possibly P. cryptoleuca. 



