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tawa, October 16; Point Pelee, October 17. Michigan — Sault Ste. 

 Marie, September 23 ; Detroit, October 6. Ohio — Wauseon, September 

 20. Indiana — Bicknell, September 21; Fort Wayne, September 22. 

 Illinois — Port Byron, September 19. Kentucky — Eubank, October 4. 

 Tennessee — Athens, October 3. Arkansas — Delight, October 4. New 

 Brunswick— Scotch Lake, September 8. Maine — Phillips, October 6. 

 New Hampshire — Ossipee, October 2. Vermont — ^Wells Kiver, Sep- 

 tember 14 ; Rutland, September 21. Massachusetts — Harvard October 



10. Conecticut— Hartford, October 18. New Jersey— Morristown, 

 October 10. Pennsylvania — Berwyn, October 5 ; Philadelphia, October 



11. District of Columbia— Washington, October 13. West Virginia — 

 French Creek, October 2. North Carolina — Raleigh, November 6. 



Casual records. — The whippoorwill has been recorded, either by 

 its call or by the collection of specimens, at several points outside its 

 normal range. One was taken at Port Collins, Colo., on September "J, 

 14, 1903, and one was heard at Eastend, in southwestern Saskatche- 

 wan, on August 29, 1919. In North Dakota, two specimens have 

 been obtained at Grafton, one on October 9, 1923, and the other on 

 May 24, 1924, while it was recorded at Stump Lake in the spring of 

 1910 and also at Cando. It has been noted occasionally near Wichita, 

 Kans., and one was noted at Harper, Kans., on May 1, 1936. During 

 the period July 5 to September 22, 1905, one was heard calling on 

 Isle Roy ale, Mich., and in the summer of 1922 one was heard on the 

 Cascapedia River, Gaspe Peninsula, Quebec. In Puerto Rico a speci- 

 men was collected for Cory, probably in 1888, and Wetmore reported 

 seeing a bird that he felt certain was this species on December 23, 

 1911, near the experimental station at Rio Piedras. 



Egg dates. — Arizona: 12 records, May 3 to August 8; 6 records. 

 May 22 to June 12, indicating the height of the season. 



Connecticut : 9 records, May 20 to June 18. 



Illinois: 39 records. May 9 to July 26; 20 records, May 18 to 

 June 17. 



West Virginia: 40 records, May 6 to July 7; 20 records, May 15 

 to June 3. 



ANTROSTOMUS VOCIFERUS ARIZONAE Brewster 



STEPHENS'S WHIPPOORWILL 



Plate 24 



HABITS 



This southwestern race of the whippoorwill is found in southern 

 Arizona and New Mexico, in southwestern Texas, and southward 

 through the mountains of northern Mexico, being replaced by another 

 subspecies farther south. Although it is common enough in some of 



