♀ and juv. scarcely distinguishable from those of cryptoleuca. Hab. Porto Rico and Jamaica (St. Domingo also?) … var. dominicensis.[66]
b. Lower tail-coverts with their shafts dusky. ♂ (adult) with throat, jugulum, and sides brownish-gray.
Sides of the jugulum with a blue-black patch in the ♂. Wing, 5.50; fork of tail, .70 deep. Hab. Bolivia … var. domestica.[67]
Sides of the jugulum without a blue-black patch in the ♂. Wing, 5.20; fork of tail, .55 deep. Hab. Middle America, from Southern Mexico to New Granada … var. leucogaster.[68]
Progne subis, Baird.
PURPLE MARTIN.
Hirundo subis, Linn. S. N. 10th ed. 1758, 192 (Hirundo cœrulea canadensis, Edwards, Av. tab. 120, Hudson’s Bay). Progne subis, Baird, Rev. Am. Birds, 1864, 274. H. purpurea, Linn. S. N. 12th ed. 1766, 344 (H. purpurea, Catesby, Car. tab. 51).—Aud. Orn. Biog. I, pl. xxiii.—Ib. Birds Am. I, pl. xlv.—Yarrell, Br. Birds, II, 232, 274 (England and Ireland, Sept. 1842).—Jones, Nat. Bermuda, 34 (Sept. 22, 1849). Progne purpurea, Boie, Isis, 1826, 971.—Brewer, N. Am. Ool. I, 1857, 103, pl. iv, fig. 47 (eggs).—Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 314.—Cooper & Suckley, P. R. R. Rep. XII, 2, 186 (Fort Steilacoom).—Blakiston, Ibis, 1863, 65 (Saskatchewan)—Cooper, Orn. Cal. 1, 1870, 113.—Samuels, 260. Hirundo violacea, Gm. H. cœrulea, Vieill. H. versicolor, Vieill. H. ludoviciana, Cuv.
Progne subis.
1561
Sp. Char. (No. 1,561 ♂.) Entirely lustrous steel-blue, with a purplish gloss; the tail-feathers and the wings, except the lesser and middle coverts, and edge inside, dull black scarcely glossed. Tibiæ dark brownish. A concealed patch of white on the sides under the wings. Concealed central portion of anal feathers light whitish-gray.