200 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



SUBORDER CYPSELL SWIFTS. 



FAMILY MICROPODIDJE. SWIFTS. 

 SUBFAMILY CHJETURIN.fi. SPINE-TAILED SWIFTS. 



GENUS CYPSELOIDES STREUBEL. 



Cypseloides STREUBEL, Isis, 1848, 366. Type, by subs, desig., Hemi- 

 procne fumigata STREUBEL (Sclater, 1865). 



Cypseloides niger (GMELIN). 



RANGE. Western North America, the West Indies, and northern 

 South America. 



a. [Cypseloides niger niger. Extralimital.J 



b. Cypseloides niger bore&lis (KENNERLY). Black Swift. [422.] 



Cypselus borealis KENNERLY, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1857, 202. 

 (Simiahmoo Bay, Puget Sound, Washington.) 



RANGE. Western North America. Breeds from southern British Columbia 

 and southern Colorado south to central Mexico; winters in southern Mexico. 



GENUS CHJETTJRA STEPHENS. 



Chcetura STEPHENS, General Zoology, XIII, ii, 1826, 76. Type, by subs, 

 desig., Hirundo pelagica LINN.EUS (Baird, 1858). 



Chsettira pelagica (LINNAEUS). Chimney Swift. [423.] 



Hirundo pelagica LINN^US, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, I, 1758, 192. (Carolina.) 



RANGE. Breeds in eastern North America from southeastern Sas- 

 katchewan, Manitoba, central Quebec, and Newfoundland south to 

 the Gulf coast, and west to the Plains from eastern Montana to eastern 

 Texas; winters south of the United States, at least to Vera Cruz and 

 Cozumel Island and probably in Central America; casual in southern 

 Alberta; accidental in New Mexico and Greenland. 



