1918. CATALOGUE OF BIRDS OF THE AMERICAS CORY. 129 



Range: Western United States, from Nebraska, Kansas and South 

 Dakota north to south eastern British Colombia, south to central Mexico 

 and Lower California. 



fn: Arizona 6; Colorado 3; and Mexico (Sonora) 2. 



*Phalaenoptilus nuttalli californicus Ridgway. DUSKY POORWIL . 



Phalaenoptilus nuttalli californicus RIDGWAY, Man. N. A. Bds., 1887, p. 588, 

 footnote (Nicasio, Marion County, Calif ornia); Id., Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 No. 50, VI, 1914, p. 552. 



Range: Calif ornia, except southeastern and northeastern Desert 

 districts; northern Lower Calif ornia? 



2: Calif ornia (Nicasio and Pasadena). 



Genus OTOPHANES Brewster. 



Otophanes Brewster, Auk, 1888, p. 88 (Type Otophones mcleodii Brewster). 



Otophones mcleodii Brewster. EARED POORWILL. 



Otophanes mcleodii BREWSTER, Auk, 1888, p. 89 (Sierra Madre of Chihuahua, 

 Mexico); RIDGWAY, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, p. 555. 



Range: Northwestern Mexico; Vera Cruz? 



Genus NYCTAGREUS Nelson. 



Nyctagreus Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 1901, p. 171 (Type Caprimulgus 

 yucatanensis Hartert). 



Nyctagreus yucatenensis (Hartert). YUCATAN POORWILL. 



Caprimulgus yucatanensis HARTERT, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 575 



(Tizimin, Yucatan). 

 Nyctagreus yucatanensis RIDGWAY, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, 



P- 557- 

 Range: Yucatan and Campeche, southeastern Mexico. 



Genus THERMOCHALCIS Richmond. 



Thermochalcis Richmond, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXVIII, 1915, p. 180 (new 

 name for Stenopsis Cassin, preoccupied) (Type Caprimulgus cayennensis 

 Gmel.). 



*Thermochalcis cayennensis cayennensis (Gmel.} . CAYENNE STENOPSIS. 



Caprimulgus cayennensis GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, pt. II, 1789, p. 1031 (Cayenne). 

 Stenopsis cayennensis HARTERT, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 583, part. 

 Stenopsis cayennensis cayennensis RIDGWAY, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 



1914, p. 498, in key; CHAPMAN, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., XXXVI, 1917, p. 274 



(La Play a, Villavicencio, Colombia). 



