ORDER CAPRIMULGIFORMES. 173 



Order CAPRIMULGIFORMES. Goatsuckers 

 AND Allies. 



Suborder CAPRIMULGI. Goatsuckers, 



POTOOS, AND FrOGMOUTHS. 



Family CAPRIMULGIDAE. Goatsuckers. 



Subfamily CAPRIMULGINAE. Goatsuckers. 



Genus ANTROSTOMUS Bonaparte. 



Anfrostomus Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 8. Type, by subs, 

 desig., Caprimulgiis carolinensis Gmelin (Gray, 1840). 



Subgenus ANTROSTOMUS Bonaparte. 



Antrfistomus carolinensis (Gmelin). Chuck-will's-widow. [416.] 



Caprimulgus carolinensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, Pt. ii, 1789, 1028. Based 

 mainly on The Goat Sucker of Carolina, Caprimulgus Catesby, 

 Carolina, I, 8. (in Virginia et Carolina = South Carolina.) 



Range. — Breeds in the Lower Austral Zone from southern Missouri, 

 southern Illinois, southern Indiana, southeastern Kansas, and southern Mary- 

 land south to central Texas and the Gulf States. Migrates through eastern 

 Mexico; winters from Florida to the Greater Antilles, Central America, and 

 Colombia. Casual in West Virginia and Cape May County, New Jersey; 

 accidental in Massachusetts, Connecticut, Nova Scotia, and Ontario. 



Subgenus SETOCHALCIS Oberholser. 



Setochalcis Oberholser, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 86, [April 6] 1914, 11. 

 Type, by orig. desig., Caprimulgus vociferus Wilson. 



Antrostomus vociferus vociferus (Wilson). Eastern Whip-poor-will. [417.] 



Caprimulgus vocifertis Wilson, Amer. Orn., V, 1812, 71 (pi. 41, figs. 1-3). 

 (Pennsylvania = Philadelphia, Pa.) 



Range. — Breeds from Manitoba, southern Quebec, New Brunswick, and 



Nova Scotia south to the northern parts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, 

 Georgia, and northwestern South Carolina, and from eastern North Dakota, 



