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Hirundo fulvaYiEihhOT, Ois. Am. Sept., i, 1807, 62, pi. 32 (Santo Domingo); 

 Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xiv, 1817, 521; Enc. Mgth., ii, 1823, 526.— Ste- 

 phens, in Shaw's Gen. ZooL, x, 1817, 126.— Swainson and Kiohaedson, 

 Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1881, 331, footnote (crit.).— Gbay, Cat. Fissirostr. Birds 

 Brit. Mus., 1847, 24.— Thienemann, Journ. Mr Orn., 1847, 149 (Cuba; descr. 



[Hirundo} fulva Boie, Isis, 1828, 315, part; 1844, 175, part. 



Cecropisfulva Lesson, Compl. Buffon, viii, 1837, 498. 



IJSerse'] fulva Bonapaete, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 341, part. 



Pletrochelidon'] fulva Cabanis, Mus. Hein., i, 1850, 47, footnote (West Indies).— 

 RiDGWAY, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 460, part (Haiti; Cuba). 



Petrochelidon fulva Gundlach, Jour, fiir Orn., 1856, 3 (Cuba); 1861, 328 (do.); 

 1874, 133; Orn. Cuba, 1876, 82.— Baied, Review Am. Birds, 1865, 291.— Coky, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 152 (Haiti); Birds Haiti and San Dom., 1885, 

 47, pi. 21, fig. 3; Auk, iii, 1886, 57, part; Birds W. I., 1889, 71, part; Cat. 

 W. I. Birds, 1892, 115, part (Cuba; Haiti). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. 

 Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 1883, 228, part (Cuba; Haiti).— Shaepe, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., X, 1885, 195, 635, part (Cuba; Haiti) .—Scott, Auk, vii, 1890, 264 

 (Garden Key, Dry Tortugas, Florida, 2 specimens), 311 (do.). — Ameeican 

 Oenithologists' Union Committee, Auk, viii, 1891, 86; Check List, 2d ed., 

 1895, no. 612.1.— Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., iv, 1892, 309 (San Juan, 

 s. Cuba).— Shaepe and Wyatt, Mon. Hirund., 1894, 561, 592, part.— Chee- 

 KiE, Contr. Orn. San Dom., 1896, 12. 



[PetrocMidon] fulva Sclatbe and Salvin, Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 14, part. 



Hirundo coronata (not of Lichtenstein, 1831) Lembeye, Aves de la Isla de Cuba, 

 1850, 45.— Gundlach, Journ. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1852, 318 (Cuba). 



PETROCHELIDON FULVA PGECILOMA (Gosse). 

 JAMAICAN CLIFF SWALLOW, 



Similar to P. f. ful/ua (from Cuba), but much more deeply colored; 

 gloss to black of upper parts rather greenish blue than violet-blue; 

 the cinnamon -rufous or vinaceous-cinnamon color of sides of head, 

 throat, chest, sides, and flanks averaging very much deeper, the same 

 color more strongly suffusing the under tail-coverts." Young much 

 deeper colored than that of P. f. fulva, with throat pale vinaceous- 

 cinnamon, the sides and flanks strongly vinaceous-cinnamon. 



Achdt TOa^e.— Length (skins), 108-124 (115.3); wing, 101-105 (102.2); 

 tail, 43.5-47 (44.9); exposed culmen, 7; width of bill at frontal antise, 

 6-7 (6.4); tarsus, 11-11.5 (11.1); middle toe, 11-12 (11.2).' 



Adult female.— Ij&ngih. (skins), 110-122 (114.4); wing, 100-103 (101); 

 tail, 44-46 (44.7); exposed culmen, 7; -width of bill at frontal antise, 6; 

 tarsus, 11-12 (11.2); middle toe, 11-11.5 (ll.l)." 



<»In a series of thirteen adults of P. f. fulva from Cuba there is only one which has 

 the throat and sides of head as deeply colored as in the average of the Jamaican series 

 (of exactly equal number of specimens), and in this one the sides and flanks are not 

 nearly as strongly rufescent as in the Jamaican specimen showing least of this color 

 on those parts. The distinction, therefore, between the birds of this species from 

 the two islands in question, while not absolutely constant, is so nearly so that the 

 propriety of distinguishing them by name can not be seriously questioned. 



iiSix specimens from Jamaica. 



"Four specimens from Jamaica. 



