222 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



422. Cypseloides niger (GMEL.). 

 Black Swift. 



Hirundo nigra GMEL. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 1025. 

 Cypseloides niger SCL. P. Z. S. June 27, 1865, 615. 



[B 108, C 270, R 350, C 404.] 



HAB. Rocky Mountain region (Colorado), west to the Pacific coast 

 north to British Columbia, and south to Mexico and the West Indies. 



GENUS CH.ffiTURA STEPHENS. 



Chcetura STEPH. Gen. Zool. XIII. pt. ii. 1825, 76. Type. Hirundo 

 pclagica LINN. 



423. Chcetura pelagica (LINN.). 



Chimney Swift. 



Hirundo pelagica LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 192. 

 Chatura pelasgia STEPH. Gen. Zool. XIII. pt. ii. 1825, 76. 



[B 109, C 271, R 351, C 405.] 



HAB. Eastern North America, north to Labrador and the Fur 

 Countries, west to the Plains, and passing south of the United States 

 in winter. 



424. Chaetura vauxii (TOWNS.). 



Vaux's Swift. 



Cypselus vauxii TOWNS. Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. VIII. 1839, 

 Chatura vauxii DEKAV, Zool. N. Y. II. 1844, 36. 



[B no, C 272, R 352, C 406.] 

 HAB. Pacific slope, from British Columbia south into Mexico. 



SUBFAMILY MICROPODIN^E. 



GENUS MICROPUS MEYER & WOLF. 



Micropus MEYER & WOLF, Taschb. Deutsch. Vog. I. 1810, 280. 

 Type, Hirundo apus LINN. 



