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 Guettn,. Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 1025 (based on Martinet de 
Saint-Domingue, Hirundo apus dominicensis Brisson, Orn., ii, 514, pl. 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) GunpLacH and Lawrence, Ann. Lyc. N. Y., vi, 
1858, 268 (Cuba).—Brewenr, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., vii, 1860, 306 (Cuba).— 
AuBReEcut, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 207 (Cuba). 
Nephocaetes niger Barrp, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 142, part (Cuba).— 
GunpiacuH, Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 177 (Cuba); 1874, 115 (Cuba). 
Nephecetes niger BarrpD, BREweER, and Ripeaway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 
429, part (Cuba).—Cory, Birds Haiti and San Dom., 1885, 88, pl. (22), 
fig. 11.—Curisty, Ibis, 1897, 329 (La Vega, Santo Domingo; habits). 
[Nephocaetes] niger GuNDLacH, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 330 (Cuba). 
[Nephecetes] niger Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 17, part. 
[Chetura] niger Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 68, no. 784, part (Cuba). 
Nechopztes (typographical error) niger GunpLacu, Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, i, 
1866, 281. 
Cypseloides niger ScLaTER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1865, 615, part (Cuba; monogr.); 
Journ. fiir Orn., 1867, 188.—Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 345, part (Santo Domingo); 
Birds West Ind., 1889, 140, part (Santo Domingo); Cat. West Ind. Birds, 
1892, 105, part (Cuba; Haiti)—Cuarman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., iv, 1892, 
301 (San Juan, s. Cuba).—Harrtert, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 494, 
part (San Cristobal, Cuba; La Vega, Santo Domingo).—Sanvin and Gop- 
MAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1893, 379, part (in synonymy).—Gunp- 
LacH, Orn. Cubana, ed. 1895, 98.—Mznecaux, Rev. Frang. d’Orn., no. 2, 
1909, 26 (Figuabas, e. Cuba). 
Clypseloides] niger (typicus) Hartert, Das Tierreich, Podarg., Caprim., Macropt., 
1897, 79, part. 
[Cypseloides] niger SHarPE, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 93, part. 
Clypseloides] n[iger] niger Ripeway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxiii, April 19, 1910, 
53, in text. 
Cypseloides niger niger AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS’ Union, Check-list, 1910, 
200 (extralimital). 
NEPHECETES NIGER JAMAICENSIS (Ridgway). 
JAMAICAN BLACK SWIFT. 
‘Similar to NV. n. niger, but much darker, the upper and under parts 
sooty black, more or less distinctly (but not conspicuously) paler or 
more grayish sooty on chin, throat, and chest. 
@ Five specimens, from Santo Domingo. 
b Haiti: La Vega, Santo Domingo. Cuba; San Juan; San Cristébal. 
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