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C[hxUira] pelagica Ridgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 303. 



Ch[aetura] pelagica Hartert, Das Tierreich, Podarg., Caprim., Macropt., 1897, 74. 



[Chsetura] pelagica Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 92 ("Mexico to Costa Rica" in 

 winter). 



[Chxtura pelagica] var. pelagica Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. 

 Birds, ii,"l874, 431. 



[Uirundo] pelasgia Linn.eus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 345. — Gmelin, Syst. Nat., 

 i, pt. ii, 1789, 1023.— Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 581. 



Hirundo pelasgia Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept., i, 1807, 63, pi. 33; Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. 

 Nat., xiv, 1817, 512.— Temminck, Cat. Syst., 1807, 135.— Wilson, Am. Orn., 

 V, 1812, 48, pi. 39, fig. 1.— Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., x, 1817, 129. 



Cypselus pelasgius Bonaparte, Synop. Birds U- S., 1828, 63. — Nuttall, Man. 

 Orn. U. S. and Can., i, 1832, 609.— Audubon, Orn. Biog., ii, 1834, 329, pi. 158; 

 V, 1839, 419. 



C[ypselus] pelasgius Maximilian, Journ. fiir Orn., 1858, 99. 



Hemiprocne pelasgia Streubel, Isis, 1848, 363. 



[AcaJithylis] pelasgia Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 64. — Woodhouse, in Rep. 

 Sitgi-eaves' Expl. Zuiiiand Col. R., 1853, 63, part (Indian Territory; Texas).— 

 Cassin, Illustr. Birds Col., Tex., etc., 1855, 249.— Brewer, North Am. 

 Oology, 1857, 108. 



Chsetura pelasgia Stefue^s, Shaw's Gen. Zool., xiii, pt. ii, 1825, 76. — Bonaparte, 

 Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 8.— Audubon, Synopsis, 1839, 33; Birds Am., 

 oct. ed., i, 1840, 164, pi. 44.— Hurdis, Jardine's Contr. Orn., 1850, 35 (Ber- 

 mudas, straggler). — Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 144; Cat. N. 

 Am. Birds, 1859, no. 109.— Martens, Journ. fur Orn., 1859, 216 (Bermu- 

 das). — Willis, An. Rep. Smithson. Inst., 1859, 287 (Bermudas). — Sclater, 

 Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 282; Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1863, 100 (monogr.); 1865, 

 610 (monogr.); Journ. fiir Orn., 1867, 132.— Trippe, Proc. Essex Inst., vi, 

 1871, 114 (Minnesota).— CouES, Check List, 1873, no. 271.— Allen, Proc. 

 Bost. Soc. N. H., xvii, 1874, 62 (Fort Rice, Dakota; Yellowstone R. near mo. 

 of Tongue R., Montana).— Newton, Man. N. H. Greenland, 1875, 97 (near 

 Sukkertoppen, Greenland, 1 spec, 1863). 



[Chsetura] pelasgia Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 66, no. 760.— Coues, Key N. Am. 

 Birds, 1872, 183.— Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 95. 



Chsetura pelasgica Ridgway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 351.— Coues, Check 

 List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 405.— Batchelder, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 

 150 (Fort Fairfield and Grand Falls, New Brunswick, common).— Nehrling, 

 Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 169 (s. e. Texas, breeding).— Merriam, Bull. 

 Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 236 (Point de Monts, Quebec).— Bicknell, Auk, 

 ii, 1885, 257 (notes).— Cantwell, Orn. and Ool., xv, 1890, 133 (Minnesota). 



C[hxt7/ra] pelasgica Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 457. 



(?) Cypselus poliourus Temminck, Tabl. Meth., 1839, 78 (based on nirondelle h 

 queue pointue, de la Louisiane Daubenton, PI. Enl., pi. 726, fig. 2; see Hell- 

 mayr, Novit. Zool., xiii, 1906, 37, iii text). 



CH^TURA RICHMONDI Ridgway. 



RICHMOND'S SWIFT. 



Similar to C. gaumeri, but larger and coloration darker (the 

 pileum and back more nearly black), and rectrices with conspicuous 

 spiny tips. 



Adults (sexes alike). — Lores velvety black; pileum, hindneck, back, 

 and scapulars uniform sooty black, faintly glossed with greenish; 



