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Phalaenoptilus nuttalli dickeyi Grinnell. San Ignacio Poor-will. [418(i.] 



Phalaenoptilus nuttallii dickeyi Grinnell, Condor, XXX, No. 2, March 

 15, 1928, 153. (San Ignacio, lat. 27°, Lower California.) 

 Range. — Lower California from about lat. 30° south. 



Genus NYCTIDROMUS Gould. 



Nyclidromus Gould, Icones Avium, II, Aug., 1838, pi. xii. Type, by 

 monotypy, Nyctidromus derhyanus Gould. 



Nyctidromus albicoUis merrilli Sennett. Merrill's Pauraque.^ [419.] 



Nyctidromus albicollis merrilli Sennett, Auk, V, No. 1, Jan., 1888, 44. 

 (Nueces River, Nueces Co., Texas.) 



Range. — Gulf coast of southern Texas and the Rio Grande Valley south 

 into Tamaulipas. In winter to Vera Cruz and Pueblo. [Allied races occur in 

 Mexico and in Central and South America.] 



Subfamily CHORDEILINAE. Nighthaw^ks. 



Genus CHORDEILES Swainson. 



Chordeiles Swainson, in Swainson and Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Amer., 

 II, 1831 [1832], 496. Type, by monotypy, Caprimulgus virginiamis 

 Gmelin = C. minor Forster. 



Chordeiles minor minor (Forster). Eastern Nighthawk. [420.] 



Caprimulgus minor J. R. Forster, Catal. Anim. N. Amer., 1771, 13. 

 Based on The Whip-poor Will Catesby, Carolina, III, 16. (No 

 locality = South Carolina.) 



Range. — Breeds from southern 'Yukon, central Mackenzie, northern 

 Manitoba, southern Quebec, and Newfoundland south to Alberta, British 

 Columbia, northwestern Washington, south-central Illinois, northern Arkan- 

 sas, southeastern Tennessee, northern Georgia, and southern Virginia and west 

 to the edge of the Great Plains from Minnesota to northeastern Oklahoma. 

 Migrates through the Bahamas, Greater Antilles, and Central America; 

 winters in South America from Colombia to Argentina. Casual in Alaska and 

 accidental on Melville Island, Arctic Ocean, and in the Scilly Isles, Great 

 Britain. 



Chordeiles minor chapmani Coues. Florida Nighthawk. [4206.] 



Chordiles popetue Chapmani "Sennett's MS," Coues, Auk, V, No. 1, 

 Jan., 1888, 37. (Gainesville, Florida.) 



» Pronounced Pau-rd-que cf. Stone, Auk, XLVI, 1929, 389. 



