218 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Range. — Breeds throughout Europe, northwestern Africa, and western 

 Asia. Winters south to India, the Malay Peninsula, the Philippines, and 

 Africa. Accidental in Greenland (both coasts).^ [Closely allied races in Asia 

 and northeastern Africa.] 



Genus PETROCHELIDON Cabanis. 



Petrochelidon Cabanis, Mas. Hein., I, Oct., 1851 [1850?], 47. Type, by 

 subs, desig., Hirundo melanogaster Swainson (Gray, 1855.). 



Petrochelidon albifrons albifrons (Rapines que). Northern Cliff Swallow. 

 [612.] 



Hirundo albifrons Rafinesque, Kentucky Gazette, n. s., I, No. 7, Feb. 14, 

 1822, 3. (Newport, Kentucky, and Madison, Indiana = Newport, 

 Kentucky.) 



Range. — Breeds from central Alaska, the upper Yukon Valley, north-central 

 Mackenzie, northern Ontario, southern Quebec, Anticosti Island, and Cape 

 Breton Island south over nearly all of the United States except Florida and 

 the Rio Grande Valley (but only casually south of lat. 38° and east of long. 97°) 

 and along the coast district of western Mexico to Nayarit. Migrates through 

 Florida and Central America and probably winters in Brazil and Argentina.^ 



Petrochelidon albifrons tachina Oberholser. Lesser Cliff Swallow. [612a.] 



Petrochelidon lunifrons tachina Oberholser, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XVI, 

 No. 7, Feb. 21, 1903, 15. (Langtry, Texas.) 



Range. — Breeds in western Texas, the Rio Grande Valley, and through 

 eastern Mexico to Vera Cruz. Winter home not definitely known but un- 

 doubtedly in South America. Migrates through Costa Rica and Panama. 



Petrochelidon albifrons melanogaster (Swainson). Mexican Cliff Swallow. 



[6126.] 



Hirundo melanogaster Swainson, Philos. Mag., n. s., I, No. 5, May, 1827, 

 366. (Tableland of Mexico = Real del Monte [Hidalgo].) 



Range. — Breeds in southern Arizona, southwestern New Mexico, Sonora, 

 and Chihuahua south over the Mexican tableland to Guatemala. Winter 

 home probably in South America. 



• Petrochelidon fulva cavicola Barbour and Brooks. Cuban Cliff Swallow. 



[612.1.] 



Petrochelidon fulva cavicola Barbour and Brooks, Proc. New Engl. 

 Zool. Club, VI [Jan. 13, 1917], 52. (San Antonio de los Banos, Prov. 

 Havana, Cuba.) 



1 Schalow, Vogel Arktis, 1904, 258. 



- The Cliff Swallow of the northwest has been separated as P. a. hypopolia 

 Oberholser (Canadian Field Naturalist, XXXIII, 1919, 95). 



