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Progne
	Male Purple martin (Progne subis)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Passeriformes
Family:	Hirundinidae
Subfamily:	Hirundininae
Genus:	Progne; F. Boie, 1826
Type species
	Hirundo purpurea = Hirundo subis;
Species
	9, See text

Progne is a genus of passerine birds in the swallow family Hirundinidae. The species are found in the New World and all have "martin" in their common name.

Taxonomy

The genus Progne was introduced in 1826 by the German zoologist Friedrich Boie for the purple martin.^[2]^[3] The genus name refers to Procne (Πρόκνη), a mythological girl who was turned into a swallow to save her from her husband. She had killed their son to avenge the rape of her sister.^[4]

The genus contains nine species:^[5]

Scientific name	Common name	Distribution
Progne tapera	Brown-chested martin	Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Suriname, the United States, Uruguay, Venezuela, a vagrant to Chile and the Falkland Islands
Progne murphyi	Peruvian martin	Peru and far northern Chile
Progne modesta	Galapagos martin	Galápagos Islands
Progne subis	Purple martin	West Coast from British Columbia to Mexico, to East Coast
Progne elegans	Southern martin	Argentina and southern Bolivia
Progne chalybea	Grey-breasted martin	Central and South America
Progne sinaloae	Sinaloa martin	Mexico
Progne cryptoleuca	Cuban martin	Cuba
Progne dominicensis	Caribbean martin	Mainland Central and South America, Caribbean islands from Jamaica east to Tobago

References

^ "Hirundinidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-07-15.
^ Boie, Friedrich (1826). "Generalübersicht der ornithologischen Ordnungen, Familien und Gattungen". Isis von Oken (in German). 19. Cols 969–981 [971].
^ Mayr, Ernst; Greenway, James C. Jr, eds. (1960). Check-List of Birds of the World. Vol. 9. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 85.
^ Jobling, James A (2010). The Helm Dictionary of Scientific Bird Names. London: Christopher Helm. p. 317. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4.
^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David; Rasmussen, Pamela, eds. (July 2021). "Swallows". IOC World Bird List Version 11.2. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 13 October 2021.