222 CHECK- LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



422. Cypseloides niger (GMEL.). 

 Black Swift. 



Hirtindo nigra GMEL. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 1025. 

 Cypseloides niger SCL. P. Z. S. June 27, 1865, 615. 



[B io8,C 270, R 350, 404-] 



HAB. Rocky Mountain region (Colorado), west to the Pacific coast ; 

 north to British Columbia, and south to Mexico and the West Indies. 



GENUS CHJETURA STEPHENS. 



Chcetura STEPH. Gen. Zool. XIII. pt. ii. 1825, 76. Type, Hirundo 

 pelagica LINN. 



423. Chaetura pelagica (LINN.). 



Chimney Swift. 



Hirundo pelagica LINN. S. N. ed. 10, I. 1758, 192. 

 Chatura pelasgia STEPH. Gen. Zool. XIII. pt. ii. 1825, 76. 



[B 109, C 271, RSSI, C 405.] 



HAB. Eastern North America, north to Labrador and the Fur 

 Countries, west to the Plains, and passing south of the United States 

 in winter. 



424. Chsstura vauxii (TOWNS.). 



Vaux's Swift. 



Cypselus vauxii TOWNS. Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila. VIII. 1839, 1 4^- 

 Chcetura vauxii DEKAY, Zool. N. Y. II. 1844, 36. 



[Buo, C2 7 2, R 3 52, C 4 o6.] 

 HAB. Pacific slope, from British Columbia south into Mexico. 



SUBFAMILY MICROPODIN-3D. 



GENUS MICROPUS MEYER & WOLF. 



Micropus MEYER & WOLF, Taschb. Deutsch. Vog. I. 1810, 280. 

 Type, Hirundo apus LINN. 



