r J
1
> hTHCK-.HKLlDON FUJ.VA,
B ,
W / i r
PETROCHELIDON FULVA
CAIHBBEAN CLIFF-SWALLOW.
Hirundo fulva, Vieill. Ois. Amér. Sept. p. 02, pl. 32 (1807) ; Gray, Cat. Fissir. Brit.
AIus. p. 21 (1817) ; Thien. J. f. O. 1857, p. 119 ; Mardi, Proc. Philad. Acad.
1863, p. 295 ; Bryant, Proc. Bost. Soc. X. H. x. p. 222 (1806).
Ceeropis fulva, Boie, Isis, 1828, p. 315,1811, j). 173; Less. Compì. Buff. viii. p. 498
(1837).
Hirundo melanogaster (ncc Swains.), Denny, P. Z. S. 1817, p. 38.
Hirundo poeciloma. Gosse, B. Jamaica, p. 61 (1817); Osburn, P. Z. S. 1865, p. 63 ;
Gray, Iland-L B. i. p. 71, no. 837 (1869).
Herse fulva, pt., Bp. Consp. i. p. 311 (1850).
Hirundo coronata, Lembcye, Av. Cuba, p. 15 (1850).
Petrochelidon fulva. Cab. AIus. Hein. Tb. i. p. 17 (1850) ; Cass. Cat. Hirund. Atus.
Philad. Acad. p. 1 (1853) ; Gundl. J. f. O. 1856, p. 3, & 1801, p. 328 ; Sclater,
P. Z. S. 1861, p. 72 ; id. Cat. Amer. B. p. 10 (1862) ; Baird, llcview Amer. B.
p. 291 (1865) ; Scl. & Salv. Xomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 14 (1873) ; Gundl. Orn. Cuba,
p. 82 (1870) ; A. & E. Newt. Haudb. Jamaica, 1881, p. 107 ; Salv. <fc Godm. Biol.
Centr.-Amer., Aves, i. p. 228 (1883) ; Cory, B. Haiti & S. Domingo, p. 17 (1881) ;
Sharpe, Cat. Birds in Brit. AIus. x. p. 195 (1885) ; Cory, List B. West Indies,
p. 10 (1886) ; id. Auk, iii. p. 57 (1886).
Petrochelidon poeciloma, Baird, lleview Amer. B. p. 292 (1805).
F . uropygio rufo ; gulà rufà ; fascia frontali castanefi ; torque nuchali anguslà rufà regioni aviriculari
concolore ; mento minime nigro ; macula jugulari nigrà imllA ; pectore rufo, ìiypochondriis
concolore.
Hab. in provincia Yiicatanicà Americæ centralis ct in Panama, præcipuc taincu iu insulis Autilleiisibua,
‘Cuba,’ ‘ Jamaica,’ ‘ Porto llico,’ ct ‘ San Domingo’ dictis.
Adaìt male. General coloui’ above glossy steel-blue, the feathers of the mantle and back edged witli
ashy white, giving a strongly streaked appearance ; wiug-covcrts and quills blackisli, with a slight
greenish gloss, the inner secondaries edged with ashy whitish a t the cuds j lower back and rump
rich che stnut; upper tail-coverts brown with a slight greenish gloss and narrowly edged witli
ashy wliitish ; tail-feathers blaekish brown, slightly glossed with greenish ; crown of head glossy
steel-blue, separated from the mantle by a narrow collar of i>alc rufous, Ibllowcd by a second
collar of ashy browu like tbe sides of the neck ; a b ro a d frontal band of deep che stnut; lores
velvety black, with pale rufous bases; cheeks, sides of face, and ear-covcrts pale ferruginous,
joining the collar round the nape; throat aud chest, as well as the sides of the body and flanks,
ferruginous, slightly mixed with ashy browu on tlic sides of the lircast and flanks; vent ferru-
T 2