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Island of Jamaica, Greater Antilles; island of Porto Rico?;** 

 northern Yucatan?;* State of Chiapas, southern Mexico?." 



Birundo pcedloma Gosse, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 64. — OsBnHN, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1865, 63 (Jamaica). 



IHirundol pacUoma Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 71, no. 837. 



Petrochelidon pcecUoma Baird, Beview Am. Birds, May, 1865, 292 (Spanishtown, 

 Jamaica). — Gundlach, Journ. Mr Orn., 1874, 311 (Porto Rico). 



Pletrochelidon] fulva poeciloma Eidgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 460, footnote 

 (crit.). 



Petrochelidon fulva {not Hirundo fulva \ieiYlot) Solateh, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 

 1861, 72 (Jamaica); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 40 (do.). — Albeecht, Journ. Mr 

 Orn., 1862, 194 (Jamaica). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, i, 

 1883, 228, part (Jamaica; n. Yucatan?; Panama?). — Shakpe, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., X, 1886, 195, 635, part (Jamaica; Porto Eico; n. Yucatan?; Panama ?). — 

 Cory, Birds W. I., 1889, 71, part; Cat. W. I. Birds, 1892, 115, part (Jamaica; 

 Porto Eico).— (?) BonoAED, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1883, 442 (Yucatan).— 

 Scott, Auk, ix, 1893,81 (Jamaica). — Field, Auk, xi, 1894, 127 (Jamaica). — 

 Shahpe and Wyatt, Mon. Hirund., 1894, 561, 592, part, pi. 107. <^ 



IPetrochelidon] fulva Sclater and Salvik, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 14, part. 



Pletrochelidon] fulva Newton (A. and E.), Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 107. 



Hirundo fulva (not of Vieillot) March, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Philad., 1863, 295 

 (Jamaica; descr. nesting). — Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., x, 1866, 222, 

 251 (J'orto Eico) .—Gundlach, Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat., vii, 1878, 198 

 (Porto Eico). • 



Hirundo melanogaster (not of Swainson) Denny, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1847, 

 38 (Jamaica). 



fflWith only one adult from Porto Eico for comparison, the status of the bird from 

 that island is doubtful. The specimen is not sexed. In coloration it seems to agree 

 best with the Jamaican bird, though the plumage is rather worn, and therefore not 

 satisfactory for comparison. Its measurements are as follows: Wing, 98.5; tail, 44; 

 exposed culmen, 6.5; width of bill at frontal antise, 5.5; tarsus, 11.5; middle toe, 11.5. 

 The wing is shorter and the bill is smaller than in any specimen among the Jamaican 

 series. 



&Four adults from northern Yucatan (Chichen Itza and Izamal) are similar to 

 Jamaican specimens in coloration, but 'are still smaller, measuring as follows: 



Adult male (two specimens). — Wing, 97-100 (98.5); tail, 43-44 (43.5); exposed cul- 

 men, 6.5-7 (6.7); width of bill at frontal antiae, 5.5-6 (5.7); tarsus, 11.5-12 (11.7); 

 middle toe, 10.5-11 (11). 



Adult female (two specimens).— Wing, 95-98 (96.5); tail, 43.5-45' (44.2); exposed 

 culmen, 6.5-7 (6.7); width of bill at frontal antiae, 6.5-7 (6.7); tarsus, 11-12 (11.5); 

 middle toe, 11. 



"A young bird from Ocozucuantla, Chiapas, in the Biological Survey collection 

 (no. 143510; coll. TJ. S. Nat. Mus.; collected Aug. 20, 1895, by Nelson and Goldman), 

 unquestionably belongs to one of the forms of P. fulva, but in the absence of a 

 sufficient series of young birds for comparison, I am unable to determine which form 

 it should be referred to. It closely resembles an example of P. f. pallida, from Miqui- 

 huana, Tamaulipas, and possibly belongs to that subspecies. 



lilhe figure, which is very badly colored, is from a Yucatan specimen. 



