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• Domain: Eukaryota () - Whittaker & Margulis,1978 - eukaryotes
  • Kingdom: Animalia () - C. Linnaeus, 1758 - animals
    • Subkingdom: Bilateria () - (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
      • Branch: Deuterostomia () - Grobben, 1908
        • Infrakingdom: Chordonia () - (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
          • Phylum: Chordata () - Bateson, 1885 - Chordates
            • Subphylum: Vertebrata () - Cuvier, 1812
              • Infraphylum: Gnathostomata () - auct. - Jawed Vertebrates
                • Superclass: Tetrapoda () - Goodrich, 1930
                  • Class: Aves () - Linnaeus, 1758
                    • Subclass: Avialae () - Gauthier, 1986
                      • Infraclass: Aves () - (C. Linnaeus, 1758)
                        • Cohort: Neognathae () - Pycraft, 1900
                          • Superorder: Passerimorphae () - Sibley et al., 1988
                            • Order: Passeriformes () - C. Linnaeus, 1758
                              • Suborder: Passeres () - (C. Linnaeus, 1758) C. Linnaeus, 1766
                                • Parvorder: Passerida ()
                                  • Superfamily: Sylvioidea ()
                                    • Family: Hirundinidae ()
                                      • Subfamily: Hirundininae ()
                                        • Genus: Progne () - Boie, 1826
                                          • Subgenus: :Lophobius ()
                                            • Specific name: cryptoleuca - Baird, SF 1865
                                              • Form: ;
                                              Name Status: Accepted Name .
                                              
                                              Last scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001

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                                              Purple Martin

                                              Members of the genus Progne

                                              ZipcodeZoo has pages for 14 species and subspecies in this genus:

                                              P. chalybea (Gray Breasted Martin) · P. chalybea chalybea (Gray-Breasted Martin) · P. cryptoleuca (Cuban Martin) · P. dominicensis (Caribbean Martin) · P. dominicensis dominicensis (Caribbean Martin) · P. elegans (Southern Martin) · P. modesta (Gal?pagos Martin) · P. murphyi (Peruvian Martin) · P. sinaloae (Sinaloa Martin) · P. subis (Western Martin) · P. subis hesperia (Purple Martin) · P. subis subis (Purple Martin) · P. tapera (Brown Chested Martin) · P. tapera tapera (Brown-Chested Martin)

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                                              • A List of birds' eggs in the collection of Mr. William Stoate, Wembdon, Bridgewater. [188-?] url p. 54.
                                              • A history of North American birds / by S. F. Baird, T. M. Brewer, and R. Ridgway. Boston: Little, Brown, 1905. url , p. 332.
                                              • A history of North American birds Boston, Little, Brown and Co., 1874. url p. 329.
                                              • A history of North American birds, by S.F. Baird, T.M. Brewer, and R. Ridgway. Land birds, illustrated by 64 chromo-lithographic plates and 593 woodcuts. Boston, Little, Brown, 1875. url p. 17, p. 329, p. 332.
                                              • A list of the birds of Florida / by Charles B. Cory. Boston: For sale by B. Whidden, 1896. url p. 19.
                                              • A list of the birds of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica, Govt. print. off., 1920. url .
                                              • A list of the birds of eastern North America / by Charles B. Cory. Boston: For sale by B. Whidden, 1896. url p. 34.
                                              • A manual of North American birds by Robert Ridgway. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1887. url .
                                              • A manual of North American birds. By Robert Ridgway. Illustrated by 464 outline drawings of the generic characters. Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott Company, 1887. url p. 593.
                                              • A manual of North American birds. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Co., 1900. url p. 459.
                                              • A monograph of the Hirundinidae: or family of swallows / London: Printed for the authors, 1885-1894 url p. 2, p. 59, p. 9.
                                              • Anales de la Sociedad Espaola de Historia Natural. Madrid: La Sociedad, url p. 121.
                                              • Annals of the Carnegie Museum. [Pittsburgh]: Published by authority of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institute, 1901- url p. 159, p. 260, p. 569.
                                              • Biologia centrali-americana: Aves / [London: R.H. Porter], 1879-1904. url .
                                              • Bird homes. The nests, eggs and breeding habits of the land birds breeding in the eastern United States; with hints on the rearing and photographing of young birds, New York, Doubleday & McClure Co., 1900. url .
                                              • Bird homes: The nests, eggs and breeding habits of the land birds breeding in the eastern United States with hints on the rearing and photographing of young birds / New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1903. url , .
                                              • Bird homes: the nests, eggs and breeding habits of the land birds breeding in the eastern United States, with hints on the rearing and photographing of young birds / New York: Doubleday & McClure, 1920, c1904. url , .
                                              • Bird homes: the nests, eggs, and breeding habits of the land birds breeding in the eastern United States; with hints on the rearing and photographing of young birds / New York: Doubleday, Page, 1905, c1904. url , .
                                              • Bird lore. New York City: Macmillan Co., c1899-c1940. url p. 150.
                                              • Bird studies; an account of the land birds of eastern North America, London, G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1898. url , .
                                              • Birds of eastern North America, Garden City, N. Y., Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912. url , .
                                              • Birds of the Colorado Valley: a repository of scientific and popular information concerning North American ornithology / by Elliott Coues. Washington: G.P.O., 1878. url p. 445.
                                              • Birds of the Colorado valley. .. scientific and popular information concerning North American ornithology. Washington, Gov't print. off., 1878. url p. 445, p. 668.
                                              • Birds of the Northwest: a hand-book of the ornithology of the region drained by the Missouri River and its tributaries. Washington, Govt. Print. Off., 1874. url .
                                              • Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. url , p. 107, p. 30, p. 314, p. 35, p. 37, p. 38, p. 40, p. 511.
                                              • Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. by Charles E. Hellmayr. 13 1935 Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1935. url p. 14.
                                              • Check-list of North American birds / prepared by a committee of the American ornithologists' union. Lancaster, Pa.: The Union, 1931. url p. 219.
                                              • Check-list of North American birds, New York, American ornithologists' union, 1910. url .
                                              • Check-list of North American birds. [Ithaca, N.Y.]1957. url p. 366.
                                              • Check-list of North American birds: the species of birds of North America from the Arctic through Panama, including the West Indies and Hawaiian Islands / prepared by the Committee on Classification and Nomenclature of the American Orni Lawrence, Kan.: American Ornithologists' Union, 1983. url p. 490, p. 806.
                                              • Check-list of birds of the world. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1931-1987. url p. 86.
                                              • Color key to North American birds, with bibliographical appendix, by Frank M. Chapman. .. with upwards of 800 drawings, by Chester A. Reed, B.S. New York, D. Appleton & Company, 1912. url p. 250, p. 250.
                                              • Eggs of North American birds by Chas. J. Maynard. Boston: De Wolfe, Fiske, 1890. url .
                                              • Eggs of North American birds; by Chas. J. Maynard. Illustrated with ten hand-colored plates. Boston, De Wolfe, Fiske & co., 1890. url p. 120.
                                              • Handbook of birds of eastern North America; with introductory chapters on the study of birds in nature, London, D. Appleton and Company, 1912. url .
                                              • Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. url p. 486.
                                              • Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. Washington [etc., Washington Academy of Sciences] url p. 201.
                                              • Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and Lower California Boston, Estes and Lauriat, 1896. url .
                                              • Memoirs of the Nuttall Ornithological Club. Cambridge, Mass.: The Club, 1886- url p. 109, p. 139.
                                              • Naturalist's guide to the Americas, prepared by the Committee on the Preservation of Natural Conditions of the Ecological Society of America, with assistance from numerous organizations and individuals, assembled and edited by chairman, Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1926. url p. 749, p. 749.
                                              • Nests and eggs of North American birds / Columbus, [Ohio]: Landon Press, c1898. url .
                                              • North American birds eggs. New York: Dover Pub, [1965]. url p. 279.
                                              • Our native birds of song and beauty, being a complete history of all the songbirds, flycatchers, hummingbirds, swifts, goatsuckers, woodpeckers, kingfishers, trogons, cuckoos, and parrots, of North America. 1 1893 Milwaukee, G. Brumder, 1893-96. url p. 345.
                                              • Review of American birds in the Museum of the Smithsonian Institution: pt. 1 / Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1864-1872. url .
                                              • Review of American birds, in the Museum of the Smithsonian institution. Part I. By S. F. Baird. Washington, Smithsonian Institution, 1864-1866. url p. 277.
                                              • Significance of white markings in birds of the order Passeriformes. By Henry Chester Tracy. Berkeley, The University press(1910). url p. 301.
                                              • Supplement to the code of nomenclature and check-list of North American birds. adopted by the American Ornithologists' Union; prepared by a Committee of the Union. New York: The Union, 1889-1920. url p. 15.
                                              • Syllogeus. Ottawa, National Museum of Natural Sciences, 1972-1995. url p. 24.
                                              • The American oologists' exchange price list of North American birds' eggs, 1922 / compiled by a committee of twenty-five prominent American oologists. Lacon, Ill.: R. Magoon Barnes, 1922. url p. 77.
                                              • The Auk. Washington, D.C.: American Ornithologists' Union, etc., 1884- url p. 237, p. 329, p. 354, p. 374, p. 399, p. 428, p. 477, p. 520, p. 56.
                                              • The Canadian bird book: illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred north American birds, also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs / by Chester A. Reed. Toronto: Musson Book Co., c1914. url p. 465.
                                              • The Warbler. Floral Park: Mayflower Pub. Co., [1903-1913] url p. 96.
                                              • The bird book, illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds, also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs, Worcester, Mass., C. K. Reed, 1914. url .
                                              • The bird book: illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs / by Chester A. Reed. Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & company, 1915. url p. 372, p. 465.
                                              • The birds of North and Middle America: a descriptive catalogue of the higher groups, genera, species, and subspecies of birds known to occur in North America, from the Arctic lands to the Isthmus of Panama, the West Indies and other island Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1901- url , , , , , .
                                              • The birds of eastern North America: with original descriptions of all the species which occur east of the Mississippi River, between the Arctic circle and the Gulf of Mexico, with full notes upon their habits, etc., / by C.J. Maynard... Newtonville, Mass.: C.J. Maynard & co., 1896. url p. 530.
                                              • The birds of the Isle of Pines / by W. E. Clyde Todd. Pittsburgh, 1916 url p. 260.
                                              • The birds of the West Indies. Including all speciesknown to occur in the Bahama Islands, the Greater Antilles, the Caymans, and the Lesser Antilles, excepting the islands of Tobago and Trinidad. By Charles B. Cory. Boston, Estes & Lauriat, 1889. url p. 70.
                                              • Transactions of the Zoological Society of London. [London]: Published for the Zoological Society of London by Academic Press url p. 476, p. 476.

                                              Notes

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                                              Contributors

                                              • BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
                                              • BirdLife International 2009. Progne cryptoleuca. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 04February2012.
                                              • Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
                                              • Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 9, 2012.
                                              • Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed February 29, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from provider.
                                              • IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
                                              • Parker III, T.A., D.F. Stotz, and J.W. Fitzpatrick, "Ecological and Distributional Databases for Neotropical Birds," in Neotropical Birds: Ecology and Conservation, by D.F. Stotz, T.A. Parker III, J.W. Fitzpatrick, and D.K. Moskovits (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). ISBN 0-226-64676-9.
                                              • Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
                                              • Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.

                                              Data Sources

                                              Accessed through GBIF Data Portal February 29, 2008:
                                              
                                              

                                              • Avian Knowledge Network: eBird

                                              Identifiers

                                              • Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 1
                                              • Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-178467
                                              • Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13718544
                                              • Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 178467
                                              • IUCN ID: 236332
                                              • Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 129452

                                              Footnotes

                                              1. Mean = 562.510 meters (1,845.505 feet), Standard Deviation = 763.560 based on 16,839 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]