724 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 
Washington).—Merritt (J. H.), Auk, xiv, 1897, 354 (Ft. Sherman, Idaho).— 
GRINNELL (J.), Pub. 2, Pasadena Ac. Sci., 1898, 27 (Los Angeles Co., Cali- 
fornia, migrant)—Brewster, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xli, 1902, 111 (San 
_José del Cabo, Lower California, Sept., Nov.).—Ratasun, Auk, xix, 1902, 
135 (Seattle, Washington, summer res.).—BaiLEy (Florence M.), Handb. 
Birds W. U. S., 1902, 231.—Bowuzs, Auk, xxiii, 1906, 144 (Puyallup Valley, 
Washington, breeding).—DrarsBorn, Pub. 125, Field Mus. N. H., 1907, 96 
(Mazatenango, Guatemala, March).—Krrmopg, Prov. Mus. Victoria, 1909, 
51 (Vancouver I., Sicamous, etc.). 
[Chetura] vauxtt Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 66, no. 761.—Covrns, Key N. Am. 
Birds, 1872, 183. 
Clhxtura] vauzit Ripaway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 303. 
[Chetura] vauzi ScuatER and Savin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 95.—SHARPE, 
Hand-list, ii, 1900, 92. 
Chetura vauxi Brown, Ibis, 1868, 421 (Vancouver I.).—Barrp, BREwER, and 
Ripeway, Hist. N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, pl. 45, fig. 8; iii, 1874, 521 (near San 
Buenaventura and San Diego, California)—Ripeway, Bull. Essex Inst., 
vii, 1875, 15, 17 (Pyramid Lake Reservation, Nevada); Orn. 40th Parallel, 
1877, 565 (Pyramid Lake Reservation)—ALLEN (C. A.), Bull. Nutt. Orn. 
Club, v, 1880, 55 (Nic4sio, California; habits)—Covusrs, Check List, 2d ed., 
1882, no. 406.—AntHony, Auk, iii, 1886, 165 (Washington Co., Oregon, sum- 
mer res.).—Mezrritt, Auk, v, 1888, 256 (Ft. Klamath, Oregon, summer res.; 
habits) —Harrert, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 481.—Savin and Gop- 
MAN, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1894, 375 (Rio Seco, near Cérdova, Vera 
Cruz; Valley of Mexico; Puebla; Laguna del Rosfrio, Tlaxcala; Raxché, 
Cobén, Duefias, Alotenango, etc., Guatemala; ‘‘Honduras”)—Swarts, 
Pacific Coast Avifauna, no. 4, 1904, 16 (Huachuca Mts., Arizona, May); 
Univ. Calif. Pub. Zool., vii, 1911, 73 (Revillagigedo I., Boca de Quadra, 
Chickamin R., Broadfield Canal, and Thomas Bay, s. Alaska; crit.; habits).— 
Taytor, Condor, vii, 1905, 177 (Humboldt Co., California, breeding; descr. 
nest and eggs)—AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS’ Union, Check List, 3d ed., 
1910, 201. 
Clhxtura] vauxt Cougs, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 458. 
Ch{etura] vauci Hartert, Das Tierreich, Podarg., Caprim., Macropt., 1897, 75. 
[Acanthylis] vauxt Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 64. 
[Chetura pelagica] var. vauxi Bairp, Brewer, and Rieway, Hist. N. Am. 
Birds, ii, 1874, 431. 
Chetura (pelagica var?) vauxi Barrp, Brewer, and Ripeway, Hist. N. Am. 
Birds, ii, 1874, 435. 
Chetura —————? Saxvin and Scuarer, Ibis, 1860, 37 (Cobén, Guatemala; 
Mexico; diagn.; crit.). 
Acanthylis pelasgia (not Hirundo pelagica Linneeus) Woopxouse, Rep. Sitgreaves 
Expl. Zufii and Col. R., 1853, 63, part (New Mexico?; California). 
CH2ATURA ACUTA (Gmelin). 
MARTINIQUE SWIFT. 
Adults (sees alike).—Above, including tail, sooty black, faintly 
glossed with bluish green; rump brownish gray or grayish brown 
(grayer and rather lighter than hair brown), the upper tail-coverts 
much darker, the longer ones approaching sooty black; under parts 
deep sooty brown, darker on under tail-coverts, much paler on throat 
and chin, where feathers are dusky basally; bill black; iris brown; 
legs and feet grayish brown or dusky (in dried skins). 
