Order MICROPODIFORMES. Family MICROPODIDM. 
No. 401. 
MICROPUS PACIFICUS. 
WHITE-KUMPED SWIFT. 
(Plate 348.) 
Hirundo PAcmCA Latham, Index Ornith., Suppl., p. Iviii., 1801 : New South Wales. 
New Holland Sw(allow) Latham, Gen. Synops. Birds, SuppL, Vol. IL, p. 259, 1801. 
Eirundo pacifica Latham, Index Ornith., Suppl., p. Iviii., 1801 ; Stephens in Shaw’s 
Gen. Zool., Vol,. X., p. 132, 1817. 
Cypselus australis Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1839, p. 141, 1840 : New South Wales; 
id., Birds Austr., pt. ix. (Vol. II., pi. 11) 1842 ; Biggies, Orn. Austr., pt. vn, 1866 ; 
Witmer Stone, Austral Av. Rec., Vol, I., p. 152, 1913. 
Cypselus vittatus Jardine and Selby, Ulus. Ornith., Vol. IV., text to pi, 39, 1840 ; New 
South Wales. 
Micropus vittata Boie, Isis, 1844, col. 165. 
Micropus australis Boie, ih. 
Cypselus pacificus Blyth, Journ. As, Soc. Beng., Vol, XIV,, p. 212, 1843 ; Bonaparte, 
Consp. Gen. Av., Vol, I., p. 65, 1850 ; Gould, Handb. Birds Austr,, Vol. I., p. 105, 
1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W,, Vol. II., p. 178, 1878 ; id., Tab. List Austr. 
Birds, p. 3, 1888 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 56, 1906 ; Ingram, Ibis, 1908, 
p. 161 (Japan) ? ; Mathews, Emu, Vol, IX., p. 7, 1909 (N.W.A.) ; G. F. HiU, ib., Vol. 
X., p. 272, 1911 (N.W.A.) ; Macgillivray, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 161, 1914 (N.Q.) ; H. L. 
White, ib., Vol. XVI., p. 221, 1917 (N.T.). 
Micropus pacificus Stejneger, Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus., No. 29, p. 321, 1885 ; Hartert, Cat. Birds 
Brit. Mus., Vol. XVI., p. 448, 1891 ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 54, 1899 ; Campbell, 
Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. II., p. 530 ; Carter, Emu, Vol. III., p. 95, 1903 
(M.W.A.); Legge, ib., p, 180, 1904 (Tas.); Bemey, ib., Vol. IV., p. 45, 1904 (N.Q.) ; 
id., ib., Vol. VI., p. 42, 1906 (N.Q.); Littler, ib., Vol. X., p. 50, 1910 (Tas.); 
id., Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 75, 1910. 
Apus pacificus Hall, Emu, Vol. VIII., p. 148, 1909 ; Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., 
p. 292, 1912. 
Micropus pacificus pacificus Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 153, 1913. 
Micropus colcloughi Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. II., p. 129, Jan. 28, 1916 : Cape York. 
Disteibtjtion. Australia and Tasmania Extra-limital. 
Adult female. General colour above and below black or blackish-brown with a steel-blue 
gloss on the back and bronze-green reflections on the flight-quills ; inner-webs of the 
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