Swifts (Apodidae)

White-chinned Swift (Cypseloides cryptus) - HBW 5, p. 421

French: Martinet à menton blanc German: Weißkinnsegler Spanish: Vencejo Barbiblanco
Other common names: Zimmer’s Swift

Taxonomy: Cypseloides cryptus Zimmer, 1945, Inca Mine, Peru.
Forms superspecies with C. storeri, and the two are sometimes considered conspecific. Another proposal suggests that present species might be conspecific with C. rothschildi and C. fumigatus. Monotypic.

Distribution: Scattered and poorly known: in Central America, occurs primarily on Caribbean slope lowlands of Belize, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama; recorded from Andes and associated lowlands in Peru, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela; also cordilleras of N Venezuela, and tepuis of S Venezuela and Guyana.