BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 705 



(149); wing, 149-157.5 (152.4); tail, 53-58.5 (56.6); exposed culmen, 

 6-6.5 (6.1); tarsus, 12-13 (12.6); middle toe, 9-9.5 (9.1).« 

 Islands of Haiti and Cuba, Greater Antilles.'' 



[Hirundo] nigra Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 1025 (based on Martinet de 

 Saint-Domingue, Hirundo apus dominicensis Brisson, Orn., ii, 514, pi. 46, 

 fig. 2; Le petit Martinet noir Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., vi, 668.) — Latham, 

 Index Orn., i, 1790, 577. 



[Cypselus] nigra Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 66, part. 



Cypselus niger (not of Gosse) Gundlach and Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vi, 

 1858, 268 (Cuba).— Brewer, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. II., vii, 1860, 306 (Cuba).— 

 Albrecht, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 207 (Cuba). 



Nephocaetes niger Baird, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 142, part (Cuba). — 

 Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 177 (Cuba); 1874, 115 (Cuba). 



Nepha^cetes niger Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 

 429, part (Cuba).— Cory, Birds Haiti and San Dom., 1885, 88, pi. (22), 

 fig. 11. — Christy, Ibis, 1897, 329 (La Vega, Santo Domingo; habits). 



[Nephocaetes] niger Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 330 (Cuba). 



[Nephoecetes] niger Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 17, part. 



[Chseturu] niger Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 68, no. 784, part (Cuba). 



Nechopsetes (typographical error) niger Gundlach, Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i, 

 1866, 281." 



Cypseloides niger Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865, 615, part (Cuba; raonogr.); 

 Journ. fiir Orn., 1867, 138. — Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 345, part (Santo Domingo); 

 Bu-ds West Ind., 1889, 140, part (Santo Domingo); Cat. West Ind. Birds, 

 1892, 105, part (Cuba; Haiti).— Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., iv, 1892, 

 301 (San Juan, s. Cuba). — Hartert, Cat. Bii-ds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 494, 

 part (San Cristobal, Cuba; La Vega, Santo Domingo). — Salvin and God- 

 man, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1893, 379, part (in synonymy). — Gund- 

 lach, Orn. Cubana, ed. 1895, 98. — Menegaux, Rev. Franf. d'Orn., no. 2, 

 1909, 26 (Figuabas, e. Cuba). 



C[ypseloides\niger {typicus) Hartert, Das Tierreich, Podarg., Caprim., Macropl., 



1897, 79, part. 

 [Cypseloides] niger Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 93, part. 

 C[ypseloides] n[iger] niger Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxiii, April 19, 1910, 



53, in text. 

 Cypseloides niger niger American Ornithologists' Union, Check-list, 1910, 



200 (extralimitai). 



NEPHCECETES NIGER JAMAICENSIS (Ridgway). 



JAMAICAN BLACK SWIFT. 



Similar to N. n. nlgcr, but much darker, tlie uj)|)er and under parts 

 sooty black, more or less distinctly (but not consj)i('uously) paler or 

 more grayish sooty on chin, throat, and chest. 



a Five specimens, from Santo Domingo. 



^ Haiti: La Vega, Santo Domingo. Cuba; San Juan; San Cristobal. 



81255°— Bull. ,W— 11 45 



