iQiS. Catalogue of Birds of the Americas— Cory. 137 



*Nyctipolus hirundinaceus cearae Cory- Ceara Nighthawk. 



Nyctipolus hirundinaceus cearae Cory, Field Mus. Pub., No. 193, Zool. Ser., XII, 



No. I, 1917, P- 4 (Quixada, Ceara, Brazil). 

 Range: Northeastern Brazil (Prov. of Ceara). 

 10: Brazil (Quixada, Ceara, and Jua, Ceara). 



^""""V^f^^ufSrundinaceus hirundinaceus (Spix), from drawing and description 



. i^^S^SIZ^S^'i^^oi feathers in white ar^s black. 

 3. Nyctipolus h. cearae Cory. Shafts of feathers in white areas white. 



Suborder CYPSELI. 

 Family CYPSELID^. Swifts. 



Genus CHAETURA Stephens. 

 Chaetura Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., XIII, 1825, p. 76 (Hirundo pelagica Linn.). 



*Chaetura pelagica {Linn.). Chimney Swift. 



[Hirundo] pelagica Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. 10, 1758, P- 192 (Carolina, U. S. A.). 



Chaetura pelasgia Audubon, Bds. Am., Oct. ed., I, 1840, p. 164, pl- 44-^ 



Chaetura pelagica Hartert. Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus.. XVI, 1892. p. 480; Ridgway. 

 Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, V, 1911, P- 7i7- 



Range: Eastern North America, north to south Labrador, Mani- 

 toba and Alberta (and accidental in southern Greenland) , west to border 



a NvctH>olus hirundinaceus cearae Cory. Similar to the male of N. h. <^rissalis 

 froRY^ but the genera plumage somewhat paler, the belly more rufous (especial y 

 l^femalesT Ind the black bands on the lower belly narrower and less distinctly 

 marked ll outer primaries with white band crossing both webs, the shafts of the 

 Se?s in the white areas being white. Wing, 120; tail, 90 mm. 



