ss 



BIRDS OF HAITI AND SAN DOMINGO. 



high, and seldom approached the ground near enough to allow of 

 their being shot. 



The measurement of the specimens before me is as follows: — 



No. Date. Sex. Mus. Locality. Length. Wing. Tail. Tarsus. Bill. 



1469 Jan. 12, 188 1. $ C. B. C. 

 5026 Nov. 23, 1882. $ C. B. C. 



Haiti. j 

 Puerto Plata, ) 

 San Domingo, j 



35.9 Aug. 8,x88 3 . i C.B.C. { Sa ^n g o. } 



3-75 



3-75 



r-75 



.20 



•15 



3.80 



3-75 



i-75 



.20 





3-95 



3-75 



r -7S 



.20. 





3-9S 



3.80 



i-75 



.20 





Genus: NEPHCECETES. Baird. 

 NEPHCECETES: BAIRD, BDS. N. A., p. 142, 1858. 



NEPHCECETES NIGER. (Gm.) 



Hirundo niger. Gm., Syst. Nat., I. p. 1025 (1788). 



Cypsclus nigcr. Gosse, Bds. Jam., p. 63 (1S47). — Gundl. and Lawr., 



An. N. Y. Lye, VI. p. 268 (1858). 

 Xcp/iarc/cs niger. Bd., Bds. N. Am., p. 152 (1858). — "Elliot, 111. 



PkIs. N. Am., I. xx." — Cooper, Orn. Cal., I. p. 349 (1870). — 



Bd., Bwr. and Ridgw., N. Am. Bds., II. p. 429 (1874). 

 Cypsclus borealis. Kenn., P. A. N. S. Phila., IX. p. 202, Nov. 



(1857). — Scl., P. Z. S., 1865, p. 615. 

 Cypseloides nigcr. Sclatcr, P. Z. S., 1865, p. 615. Scl. and Salv., 



Nomenc. A v. Neot., p. 95 (1873). 

 Xcphoccclcs nigcr. Gund., Anal, de la Soc. Esp. de Hist. Nat., Tomo 



VIII. p. 200 (187S). 



