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An early observation of Vieillot on the chimney swift in Hispaniola 

 has been completely overlooked. This author who traveled in Haiti, 

 in his account of the chimney swift (see reference above), after 

 stating the usual range for the bird in the north, remarks " on la 

 trouve aussi a Saint-Domingue." On April 19, 1917, Paul Bartsch, 

 familiar with the bird in the north, observed a number of chimney 

 swifts circling in the air above the city of Port-au-Prince. On May 

 18, 1917, W. L. Abbott collected an adult male chimney swift on 

 Tortue Island, the first collected specimen on record so far as we are 

 aware from south of the United States. 



In the early morning of April 15, 1927 Wetmore noted a flock 

 of forty or fifty circling over his camp on La Selle at an altitude 

 of 1,900 meters chippering clearly as they darted rapidly above the 

 pines. At Hinche on the evening of April 23 a single bird passed 

 toward the northwest traveling rapidly and directly at an elevation 

 of 80 meters above the earth. On April 30 he noted several at 

 Belladere and on the following morning saw several across the 

 Dominican border near Comendador. It is believed that these records 

 all pertain to birds in passage from some winter home in northern 

 South America. Further observations of occurrence will be im- 

 portant. 



The only other record of the chimney swift south of the United 

 States that we have seen is that of Bangs and Peters 3 who report a 

 male taken at Presidio, Vera Cruz, by W. W. Brown, May 6, 1925. 



The chimney swift is sooty black, paler on the rump and upper tail 

 coverts and throat. It is smaller than the black swift as it has a wing 

 measurement of only 122 to 133 mm., and in addition has the shafts 

 of the tail feathers protruding as rigid spines. 



STREPTOPROCNE ZONARIS PALLIBIFRONS (Hartert) 

 ANTIILEAN CLOUD SWIFT, VENCEJO 



Chaetura zonaris pallidifrons Haetebu, Ibis, 1896, p. 363 (Ferry River, St. 

 Catherine, Jamaica ) . 4 



Chaetura zonaris, Coby, Cat. West Indian Birds, 1S92, p. 106 (recorded with 

 a query, Haiti, Dominican Republic) ; Auk, 1S95, p. 279 (Dominican Republic). — 

 Chebbie, Field Columbian Mus., Ornith. ser., vol. 1, 1896, p. 18 (Santo Domingo 

 City, specimen).— Vekeill, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 1909, p. 361 (La 

 Vega ) . 



Streptoprocne zonaris melanosis, Peters, Proc. New England Zool. Club, vol. 

 6, Nov. 23, 1916, p. 37 (described as new from Sosua, Dominican Republic) ; 

 Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., 1917, p. 413 (Sosua, specimens; Monte Cristi, Choco, 

 Rio San Juan).— Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. SO, 1928, pp. 

 502-503 (La Selle, La Hotte, Port-au-Prince, Ennery, Port-de-Paix, Tortue 

 Island). — Danfoeth, Auk, 1929, p. 36S (recorded). — Moltoni, Att. Soc. Ital. 

 Scienz. Nat., vol. 6S, 1929, p. 317 (San Juan, specimen). 



8 Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., vol. 67, 1927, p. 474. 



1 For this locality see Hartert, Nor. Zool., vol. 29, 1922, p. 399. 



