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Progne domestica (not Hirundo domestica Vieillot) Gray, Cat. Fissirostr. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., 1848, 28. 



Progne dominicensi^ (not Hirundo dominicenm Gmelin) Geay, Cat. Fissiroatr. B. 

 Brit. Mus., 1848, 28.— Cassin, Cat. Hirund. Mus. Philad. Acad., 1853, 10.— 

 BuKMEisTEE, Syst. Ueb. Th. Braa., iii, 1856, 141.— Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1857, 201 (San Andres Tuxtla, Vera Cruz) ; 1859, 364 (Jalapa, Vera 

 Cruz); I860, 292 (Ecuador); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 38, part (Esmeraldas, 

 Ecuador; Jalapa; Guatemala). — Sclater and Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 13 (Guate- 

 mala). — Salvin, Ibis, 1859, 466 (Belize, British Honduras). — Taylor, Ibis, 

 1860, 110 (Comayagua, Honduras) . — Owen, Ibis, 1861, 61 (San Geronimo, 

 Guatemala; descr. egg). 



[1) P[rogne] domiracerms Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 51 (Brazil). 



Progne purpurea (not Hirundo purpurea Linnseus) Cabanis, in Schomburgk's 

 Reis. Brit. Guiana, iii, 1848, 671.— Leotaud, Oia. Trinidad, 1866, 92. 



Progne leucogaster Baied, Review Am. Birds, May, 1865, 280 (Cajabon, Vera Paz, 

 Guatemala; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). — Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., ix, 1868, 

 96 (San Jos6, Costa Rica); Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 4, 1876, 17 (Barrio, 

 Oaxaca). — Pbantzius, Journ. fiirOrn., 1869, 294 (Costa Rica). — Sumichkast, 

 Mem. Bost. Soc. N. H., i, 1869, 547 (Vera Cruz; hot and temperate zones, up 

 to 4,000 ft.).— Ferrari-Peeez, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., ix, 1886, 139 (Jalapa, 

 "Vera Cruz). 



^Progne'] leucogaster Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 75, no. 892. 



P[rogne] leucogaMra 8 aijvi^, Ibis, 1866, 203, in text (Guatemala; crit. ). 



Progne leucogastra SchAiEn a.nd Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1867, 569 (Mexi- 

 ana I. and Pari, lower Amazons), 749 (Xeberos, e. Peru), 754 (Xeberos and 

 Yurimaguaa, e. Peru); 1870, 836 (San Pedro, Honduras). — Wyatt, Ibis, 

 1871, 323 (Magdalena Valley, Colombia).— Ridqway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 iii, 1880, 236.— Nutting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., v, 1882, 391 (La Palma, w. 

 Costa Rica) . 



Progne {subis var?) leucogaster Baied, Brewer, and Ridqway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, i, 1874, 329, footnote. 



PROGNE MODESTA (Neboux). 

 GALAPAGOS MARTIN. 



Much smaller than any of the continental forms, and lacking any 

 trace of white on sides of lower back or outer edge of sides. 



Adult male. — Uniform glossy dark violaceous steel blue, as in P. 

 subis, P. furcata, etc., but hardly so bright; wings and tail black, very 

 faintly glossed with bluish or greenish; bill black; iris brown; legs 

 and feet brownish black or dusky brown; length (skins), 142-153(148.2); 

 wing, 122-124 (123); tail, 61-68.5 (62.2), forked for 10-14 (12); exposed 

 culmen, 10; width of bill at frontal antise 7-8 (7.6); tarsus, 11-12 

 (11.7); middle toe, 12.« 



Adult female. — Above black, becoming sooty on head and rump, the 

 back and scapulars strongly glossed or overlaid with violaceous steel 

 blue (much duller than in adult male; upper tail-coverts sometimes 

 with narrow terminal margins of paler; under parts dark sooty gray 



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