694 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
TACHORNIS PHENICOBIA PHENICOBIA Gosse. 
JAMAICAN PALM SWIFT. 
Adults (sexes alike)—Pileum and hindneck deep or dark sooty 
brown (sepia to nearly clove brown); back, scapulars, median portion 
of upper rump, upper tail-coverts, and tail black or sooty black; rump 
(except median upper portion) white; wings sooty blackish, the inner 
webs of primaries paler, especially toward edges, the secondaries 
narrowly margined terminally with paler; a blackish space imme- 
diately in front of eye, with a less distinct (sometimes nearly obsolete) 
dull whitish space immediately beneath it; anterior portion of loral 
region, suborbital region, auricular region, and sides of neck grayish 
brown (broccoli brown or hair brown); chin, throat, and chest dull 
white (the first sometimes more or less extensively grayish brown), 
the feathers grayish brown basally; sides dark sooty brown, this 
extending across upper breast as a more or less continuous narrow 
band; abdomen and lower median portion of breast dull white; 
under tail-coverts very dark sooty brown or sooty black; bill dull 
black; iris dark brown; feet dusky. 
Young.—Not essentially different from adults, but white of under 
parts duller, especially that of abdominal area, and brown of sides and 
under tail-coverts paler. 
Adult male.—Length (skins), 94-96 (95); wing, 100.5-102.5 (101.7); 
tail, 39-40 (39.3); exposed culmen, 4-4.5 (4.3); tarsus, 7-7.5 (7.2); 
middle toe, 4-5 (4.5).¢ 
Adult female.—Length (skins), 94-100 (98); wing, 97-102 (100.7); 
tail, 38.5-44.5 (41.5); exposed culmen, 4-4.5 (4.4); tarsus, 7; middle 
toe, 4.5.2 . 
Islands of Jamaica (Spanishtown; Kingston; St. Andrews; Hope 
Garden) and Haiti (near Jacmél; Santo Domingo). 
Tachornis phenicobia Gossn, Birds Jamaica, 1847, 58; Illustr. Birds Jamaica, 
1849, pl. 9—ABrecat, Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 194 (Jamaica).—Manrcu, Proc. 
Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 287 (Jamaica). 
T[achornis] phenicobia NewrTon (E. and A.), Handb. Jam., 1881, 108. 
T[achornis] phoenicobius Hartert, Das Tierreich, Podarg., Caprim., Macropt., 
1897, 82, part (Jamaica; Haiti). 
[Tachornis] phenicobius SHarre, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 94, part (Jamaica; Haiti). 
[Cypselus] phaenicobia Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 66, part. 
Cypselus phenicobius ScLatER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865, 604, part (Jamaica); 
Journ. fiir Orn., 1867, 125, part (Jamaica; monogr.).—Cory, Bull. Nutt. Orn. 
Club, vi, 1881, 153 (Haiti); Birds Haiti and San Dom., 1885, 87, pl. (22), 
fig. 12; Auk, iii, 1886, 344, part (Jamaica; Haiti); Birds West Ind., 1889, 
139, part (Jamaica; Haiti)—Scorr, Auk, ix, 1892, 276 (Jamaica).—Fre.p, 
Auk, xi, 1894, 125 (Port Henderson, Jamaica). 
@ Three specimens, from Jamaica. 
b Five specimens, but measurements of tarsus and middle toe from only one. 
Three specimens from Haiti, but with sex undetermined, measure as follows: Wing, 
99-103.5 (101.7); tail, 39-40 (39.5); exposed culmen, 4; tarsus, 7; middle toe, 4.5. 
