BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



581 



Lower California, after April 23).— American Ornithologists' Union 

 Committee, Auk, xii, 1895, 1G7, part; Check List, 2(1 ed., 1895, no. 421, part 

 (Cape San Lucas); 3rd ed., 1910, 199, part (Cape San Lucas).— Bendire, 

 Life Hist. N. Am. Birds, (ii), 1895, 172, part.— Anthony, Auk, xii, 1895, 139 

 (San Fernando, Lower California). — Bailey (Florence M.), Handb. Birds 

 W. U. S., 1902, 228, part.— Brewster, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xii, 1902, 110 

 (Triumfo, Sierra de la Laguna, San Jose del Cabo, La Paz, and Pearce's Ranch, 

 s. Lower California; crit. ; habits). 



Ch[ordeiles] acutipennis texensis Hartert, Tierreich, Podarg., Caprim., Macropt., 

 1897, 20, part. 



Chordediles acutipennis texensis Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 402, part. 



C[hordedUes'] acutipennis texensis Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2ded., 1884, 454, part. 



[Chordeiles acutipennis.] Subsp. p. Chordeiles texensis Hartert, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xvi, 1892, 61G, part (Triumfo and Cape St. Lucas, L. Calif.). 



Chordeiles acutipennis inferior Oberiiolser, Bull. 86, U. S. Nat. Mus., 1914, 109. 



CHORDEILES ACUTIPENNIS TEXENSIS (Lawrence). 

 TEXAS NIGHTHAWK. 



Similar in coloration to C. a. inferior, but larger. 



Adult male. --Length, (skins), 208-237 (223)«; wing, 173-192 (183.4); 

 tail, 104-119(111.6); culmen, 5-6.8 (5.9); tarsus, 13-15 (14); middle 

 toe, 13-15 (14.2).^ 



Adult female. —Length, (skins), 195-230 (216)'-; wing, 168.5-180 

 (175); tail, 102-110 (106.1); culmen, 5.1-7 (6); tarsus, 12.5-15.2 

 (13.5); middle toe, 13-15.8 (14.2).'^ 



Southwestern United States, from southern Texas (north to Gal- 

 veston, Montgomery, Mason, Kerr, Tom Green, Concho, and Reeves 

 counties), through southern New Mexico (Almagorda; Deming; Lone 

 Mountain, Grant County), southeastern Colorado (Hoehne, near 

 Trinidad, casually), southern Utah (Saint George), southern Nevada 

 (Virgin Valley; Vegas Valley; Ash Meadows), and Arizona to south- 

 ern and central California (north to Mendocino, Glenn, and Tuolumne 

 counties) ; breeding southward over northern and central Mexico, in 

 States of Sonora, Chihuahua, CoahuHa, Nuevo Leon (Santa Catarina; 

 San Pedro; SanAugustin; Montemorelos), Tamaulipas (Matamoros; 



