BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA, 725 
Adult male.—Length (skins), 105; wing, 106.5-111 (108.7); tail 
37.5-39.5 (38.5); exposed culmen, 4; tarsus, 9; middle toe, 7.¢ 
Adult female.—Length (skins), 107-111 (109); wing, 111-113 (112); 
tail, 37.5-39.5 (88.5); exposed culmen, 4.5; tarsus, 9.5; middle toe, 7.4 
Islands of Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique,’ St. Vincent, and 
Santa Lucia, Lesser Antilles. 
[Hirundo] acuta Guertin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 1023 (based on Hirondelle 
acutipenne, de la Martinique Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., vi, 702; Hirondelle 
de la Martinique Daubenton, Pl. Col., pl. 544, fig. 1)—Laraam, Index Orn., 
ii, 1790, 581 (Martinique). 
Hirundo acuta StzrHEns, Shaw’s Gen. ‘Zool., x, 1817, 131. 
[Chetura] acuta Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 66, no. 768.—SHarrr, Hand-list, ii, 
1900, 92. 
Chetura acuta Hartert, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 486 (Dominica; Santa 
Lucia).—Cory, Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 12, 106, 143 (Dominica; Guade- 
loupe; Santa Lucia; St. Vincent)—Cuiarx, Proc. Bost. Soc. N. H., xxxii, 
1905, 273 (St. Vincent). 
Ch{ztura] acuta Harterr, Das Tierreich, Podarg., Caprim., Macropt., 1897, 76. 
Chetura poliura (not Cypselus poliourus Temminck) Lawrence, Proc. U. S. 
Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 62 (Dominica). 
Chetura dominicana Lawrence, Ann. N. Y. Ac. Sci., i, no. 8, Dec., 1878, 255 
(Dominica; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.); Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 487 
(Dominica).—ListeR, Ibis, 1880, 42 (St. Vincent)—Scuarer, Ibis, 1880, 
75 (Santa Lucia; crit.)—Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 346; viii, 1891, 48 (Guade- 
loupe); Birds West Ind., 1889, 141—Atzten, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 
1881, 128 (Santa Lucia).—VeErritt (G. E.), Trans. Conn. Ac. Arts and Sci., 
viii, 1892, 330 (Dominica; habits; crit.). 
[Chztura] dominicana Cory, List Birds West Ind., 1885, 17. 
Chetura dominica ScuatEeR, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1889, 327 (Dominica). 
Chetura dominicana colardeaut Lawrence, Auk, viii, Jan., 1891, 59 (Guade- 
loupe; coll. Am. Mus. N. H.). 
CHZTURA CINEREIVENTRIS FUMOSA (Salvin.) 
SMOKY SWIFT. 
Adults (sexes ahke).—Pileum, hindneck, lores, back, scapulars, 
wings, and tail glossy bluish black (the remiges and rectrices with a 
very narrow terminal margin of whitish in fresh plumage); rump 
pale buffy gray, the feathers narrowly tipped with whitish; upper 
tail-coverts grayish black, the inner webs edged with light gray- 
ish; chin and upper throat very pale gray or grayish white (the 
feathers deep sooty gray basally) passing gradually into deep mouse 
gray on auricular region and chest, this deepening into blackish slate 
on under parts of body, the under tail-coverts slate-black; bill black; 
« Two specimens, from Dominica. 
An adult male from Guadeloupe (type of C. dominica colardeaut Lawrence) measures: 
Wing, 107; tail, 39. Eight adults of undetermined sex from Santa Lucfa measure 
as follows: Wing, 103-108 (105.2); tail, 36-40.5 (38.4); exposed culmen, 4-4.5 (4.3); 
tarsus, 9; middle toe, 6.57 (6.9). 
6 Not recorded, however, from Martinique (the type locality) since Buffon, 
