BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 695 
[Cypselus] phenicobius Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 64, no. 733, part (Jamaica).— 
Scnater and Sazvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 94, part (Jamaica).—Cory, 
List Birds West Ind., 1885, 17, part (Jamaica; Haiti). 
Tachornis phenicobius Cory, Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 12, 43, part (Jamaica; 
Haiti). 
Cypselus cayennensis? (not Hirundo cayanensis Gmelin) Sauxit, Proc. Zool. Soc. 
Lond., 1857, 232 (Santo Domingo). 
Cypselus cayanensis? Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xi, 1867, 95 (Santo Domingo). 
TACHORNIS PHENICOBIA YRADI (Lembeye). 
CUBAN PALM SWIFT. 
Similar to T. p. phenicobia, but tail more deeply forked, back 
averaging much more sooty (less black), color of sides averaging 
decidedly paler, and sides of head more extensively grayish brown; 
averaging larger. 
Adult male.—Length (skins), 96-107 (102); wing, 94.5-106 (100.6) ; 
tail, 38-47 (42.5); exposed culmen, 4-5 (4.4); tarsus, 6.5-7 (6.8); 
middle toe, 4—-4.5 (4.3).% 
Adult female—Length (skins), 102-113 (108); wing, 98.5-110 
(106); tail, 41-48 (45.9); exposed culmen, 4.5-5 (4.6); tarsus, 6.5-7.5 
(7); middle toe, 4-4.5 (4.2).% 
Island of Cuba (Monte Verde; Pinar del Rio; Guanajay; Bata- 
bano; Holquin; San Pablo: Trinidad). 
Cypselus yradii LemBrye, Aves de la Isla de Cuba, 1850, 50, pl. 7, fig. 4. 
Tachornis tradii GUNDLACH, Journ. fiir Orn., 1860, 268; 1874, 116 (habits); Repert. 
Fisico-Nat. Cuba, 1866, 95.—A.tsrecat, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 208. 
[Tachornis] tradi Gunpiace, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 330. 
Tachornis gradii (typographical error) BREwsER, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 
1860, 306. 
Tachornis phoenicobius (not T. phenicobia Gosse) CaBANIS, Journ. fiir Orn., 1856, 
5.—Gunpiacu, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 411.—Cory, Cat. West Ind. Birds, 
1892, 12, 43, part (Cuba). 
[Tachornis] phenicobius SHarPe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 94, part. 
T[achornis] phoenicobius Hartert, Das Tierreich, Podarg., Caprim., Macropt., 
1897, 82, part (Cuba). 
Cypselus phenicobius Scuater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865, 604, part (Cuba); 
Journ. fiir Orn., 1867, 125, part (Cuba; monogr.)—Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 
344, part (Cuba); viii, 1891, 294 (Cuba); Birds West Ind., 1889, 139, part 
(Cuba). 
[Cypselus] phenicobius Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 64, no. 733, part (Cuba).— 
ScnaTeR and Savin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1878, 94, part (Cuba).—Cory, List 
Birds West Ind., 1885, 17, part (Cuba). 
Tachornis phenicobia CHarmaN, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., iv, 1892, 302 (San Pablo, 
s. Cuba). 
[Cypselus] phaenicobia Bonararte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 66, part. 
Cypselus phenicobius Menrcaux, Rev. Frang. d’Orn., no. 2, 1909, 26 (Guan- 
tanamo and San Carlos, Cuba). 
Tachornis phoernicobius GuNDLACH, Orn. Cubana, ed. 1895, 98. 
@ Hight specimens. 
