BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA, 719 
C[hextura]. pelagiea Ripaway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 303. 
Ch{aetura),pelagica Harrert, Das Tierreich, Podarg., Caprim., Macropt., 1897, 74. 
[Chetura] pelagica SHARPE, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 92 (‘‘Mexico to Costa Rica” in 
winter). 
[Chetura pelagica] var. pelagica Barrp, BREWER, and Ripeway, Hist. N. Am. 
Birds, ii, 1874,-481. 
‘[Hirundo] pelasgia Linnazus, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, i, 1766, 345.—Gutin, Syst. Nat., 
i, pt. ii, 1789, 1023.—Latuam, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 581. 
Hirundo pelasgia Viz1tu0t, Ois. Am. Sept., i, 1807, 63, pl. 33; Nouv. Dict. d’Hist. 
Nat., xiv, 1817, 512.—Temmincx, Cat. Syst., 1807, 135.—Witson, Am. Orn., 
v, 1812, 48, pl. 39, fig. 1.—SrzpHens, Shaw’s Gen. Zool., x, 1817, 129. 
‘Cypselus pelasgius Bonaparte, Synop. Birds U. S., 1828, 63.—Nutratu, Man. 
Orn. U. S. and Can., i, 1832, 609.—AupuBon, Orn. Biog., ii, 1834, 329, pl. 158; 
v, 1839, 419. 
C[ypselus] pelasgius Maximitian, Journ. fiir Orn., 1858, 99. 
Hemiprocne pelasgia STREUBEL, Isis, 1848, 363. 
[Acanthylis] pelasgia Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 64—Woopnovss, in Rep. 
Sitgreaves’ Expl. Zufiiand Col. R., 1853, 63, part (Indian Territory; Texas).— 
Cassin, Illustr. Birds Col., Tex., etc., 1855, 249.—Brewerr, North Am. 
Oology, 1857, 108. 
Chetura pelasgia STEPHENS, Shaw’s Gen. Zool., xiii, pt. ii, 1825, 76.— Bonaparte, 
Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 8—AupuBon, Synopsis, 1839, 33; Birds Am., 
oct. ed., i, 1840, 164, pl. 44.—Hurois, Jardine’s Contr. Orn., 1850, 35 (Ber- 
mudas, straggler).—Barrp, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 144; Cat. N. 
Am. Birds, 1859, no. 109.—Marrens, Journ. fiir Orn., 1859, 216 (Bermu- 
das).—Wituis, An. Rep. Smithson. Inst., 1859, 287 (Bermudas).—ScnaTER, 
Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 282; Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1863, 100 (monogr.); 1865, 
610 (monogr.); Journ. fiir Orn., 1867, 132.—Triers, Proc. Essex Inst., vi, 
1871, 114 (Minnesota).—Coves, Check List, 1873, no. 271.—ALLEN, Proc. 
Bost..Soc. N. H., xvii, 1874, 62 (Fort Rice, Dakota; Yellowstone R. near mo. 
of Tongue R., Montana).—Newton, Man. N. H. Greenland, 1875, 97 (near 
‘Sukkertoppen, Greenland, 1 spec., 1863). 
[Cheetura] pelasgia Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 66, no. 760.—Covrs, Key N. Am. 
Birds, 1872, 183.—Sciater and Satvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 95. 
-Chetura pelasgica Ripaway, Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 351—Covzs, Check 
List, 2d.ed., 1882, no. 405.—BarcHELpsr, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 
150 (Fort Fairfield and Grand Falls, New Brunswick, common).—NEHRLING, 
Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 169 (s. e. Texas, breeding).—Merrriam, Bull. 
Nutt.-Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 236 (Point de Monts, Quebec).—BickNeLt, Auk, 
ii, 1885, 257 (notes). —-CanTwELL, Orn. and Ool., xv, 1890, 133 (Minnesota). 
C[hetura] pelasgica Cours, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 457. 
(?) Cypselus poliourus Temmincx, Tabl. Méth., 1839, 78 (based on Hirondelle a 
queue pointue, de la Louisiane Dausenton, Pl. Enl., pl. 726, fig. 2; see Hell- 
mayr, Novit. Zool., xiii, 1906, 37, in text). 
CHAITURA RICHMONDI Ridgway. 
RICHMOND'S SWIFT. 
Similar to C. gawmeri, but larger and coloration darker (the 
pileum and back more nearly black), and rectrices with conspicuous 
spiny tips. 
Adults (sexes alike).—Lores velvety black; pileum, hindneck, back, 
and scapulars uniform sooty black, faintly glossed with greenish; 
