72 CHECK LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



396. Antrostomus carolinensis (Gm.) Gould. B 111. c 264. R 353. 



Chuck-will's-widow. 



397. Antrostomus vociferus (Wils.) Bp. B 112. c 265. R 354. 



Whip-poor-will. [See Addenda, No. 881. 



398. Phalaenoptilus imttalli (Aud.) Ridg. B us. c 266. R 355. 



Nuttall's Whip-poor-will. 



399. Chordediles popetue (V.) Bd. B 114. c 267. R 357. 



Night-hawk. 



400. Chordediles popetue henryi (Cass.) All. B 115. c 267. R 357. 



Western Night-hawk. 



401. Chordediles popetue minor (Cab.) Ridg. B . c . R 3576. (!w. i.) 



Cuban Night-hawk. 



402. Chordediles acutipennis texensis (Lawr.) Ridg. B lie. c 268. R 358. 



Texan Night-hawk. 



396. An-tro'-sto-mus ca-rS-Hn-en'-sIs. Gr. &vrpoi>, Lat. antrum, a cave, a-Topa, mouth; in 



allusion to the cavernous capacity of this fissirost. The curious English name, like 

 " whip-poor-will," is an onomatopceon, being an attempt to express the bird's cry in 

 words. 



397. A. vo-ci'-fgr-us. Lat. vociferus, vociferous, clamorous, from vox, genitive, vocis, voice, and 



fero, I bear ; vox is said to be digammated from Gr. #<J/. 



398. Phal-ae-nop'-til-us nut-tal-11. Gr. (fxiXatva, a moth, and irriKov, plumage ; in allusion to 



the peculiar velvety plumage, like the furriness of a moth's wing. To Thomas Nuttall. 

 This is given as Antrostomus nuttalli in the orig. ed. The genus has since been estab- 

 lished by Ridgway, Pr. Nat. Mus., ii, 1880, p. 5. 



399. Chor-de-di'-les popetue. Gr. xp8r), a chord, a stringed instrument, and SeiAT;, con- 



tracted from 8e/eA.oy, root tt\<a, the evening, here apparently meaning to -close in, as 

 evening does. The allusion is to the crepuscular habits of the bird, its curious notes 

 being oftenest heard at evening. Swainson originally wrote chordeiles, an inadmissible 

 contraction, and further erroneous in retaining Gr. et instead of changing to long Lat. i. 

 The word has sometimes been written chordiles. Cabanis properly emends as above. 

 Swainson was very negligent in these matters : for instance, he made a genus aipunemla, 

 the proper form of which is cepycnemis. The word popetue is barbarous, of meaning 

 and pronunciation alike unknown to us. We have heard it as three and as four sylla- 

 bles, accented in each case on the antepenult. 



This stands as Chordeiles virginianus in the orig. ed. 



400. C. p. he"n'-ry-I. To Dr. T. Charlton Henry, who collected and observed in the West. 



401. C. p. mm'-6r. Lat. minor, minor, less, smaller, this form holding such relation to the stock 



species. 



Not in the orig. ed. of the Check List. Stated to have occurred in Florida. See 

 Ridg., Pr. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, p. 219. 



402. C. a-cu-tl-pen'-nTs tex-en'-sls. Lat. aaitus, acute, sharp, pointed, and penna, wing or 



feather, in allusion to the long wings. Texcnsis, adjective formed from Texas. Texas 

 is properly a plural noun, singular Texa, meaning the Texas ; as we should say now, the 

 Texans, a race of the Caddos. Tachies and Taxus are also found. 

 This stands as C. texensis of the orig. ed. 



