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[Chordediles] texensis Heine and Reichenow, Nora. Mas. Tlein. Om. ISOfl IDl 

 (Mexico). 



Chordeiles ncutipennis, var. texensis Baird, Brewer, and Ridoway, Illst. N. Am. 

 Birds, ii, 1874, 406, part.— Merrill, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., i,'l878, 146 (Ft. 

 Brown, Texas; habits; notes; descr. eggs). 



Chordeiles acutipennis . . . var. texensis Henshaw, Rep. Om. Spec. Wheeler'a 

 Surv., 1874, 129 (Gila R., Arizona). 



Chordeiles acutipennis texensis Ridgway, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, March 27 1880 

 5 (crit.), 188, part; Norn. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 358, part.— Belding, Proc! 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., V. 1883, 543, part (San Diego, California, MayV— American 

 Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xii, 1895, 167, part; Check List 

 2d ed., 1895, no. 421, part; 3rd ed., 1910, 199, part.— Bendire, Life Hist! 

 N. Am. Birds (ii), 1895, 172, part, pL 3, figs. 7, 8, 9, 10.- GRiNNELLfJ.), Pub. 

 2, Pasadena Ac. Sci., 1898, 27 (Los Angeles Co., California, breeding).— 

 Mailliard, Condor, iii, 1901, 123 (San Benito Co., California, breeding).— 

 Bailey (Florence M.), Handb. Birds W. U. S., 1902, 228, part.— Montgom- 

 ery, Auk, xxii, 1905, 14 (Montgomery Co., Texas). — Miller (W. De W.), 

 Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., xxii, 1906, 166 (Rancho Baillon, n. w. Durango, May; 

 crit.). — Sharp, Condor, ix, 1907, 88 (San Diego Co., California, breeding). — 

 Goldman, Condor, x, 1908, 204 (mouth of Kern R. Canyon, California, breed- 

 ing). — Cooke, Condor, xiv, 1912, 148 (Hoehne, near Trinidad, Colorado, 

 June 11, 1908).— Taylor (W. P.), Condor, xiv, 1912, 222, in text (Winslow, 

 Glen Co., California, breeding). 



[Chordeiles acutipennis] subsp. ^. Chordeiles texensis IIartert, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xvi, 1892, C16, part. 



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

 1897, 20, part. 



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

 Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Om. Club, viii, 1883, 21 (Santa Rita Mts., Tucson, 

 and Camp Lowell, Arizona). 



C[hordediles] acutipennis texensis Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 454, part. 



Chordiles acutipennis texensis Nehrling, Bull. Nutt. Om. Club, vii, 1882, 170 

 (Harris, Montgomery, Galveston, and Ford coimties, s. e. Texas; habit-s). 



Caprimulgus texensis Koenig-Warthausen, Joura. fur Orn., xvi, 18C8, 376, part. 



Family NYCTIBIIDyE. 



THE POTOOS.a 



=Nyctibiinse Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iii, 1860, 94. — Sclater, Cat. Am. 

 Birds, 1862, 278.— Stejneger, Stand. Nat. Hist., iv, 1885, 387, iu text.— 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1894, 398. — Sharpe, Hand- 

 list, ii, 1900, 78. 



= Nyctihiidse Sharpe, Rev. Classif. Birds, 1891, 81. 



^Steatornithinx Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 57 (includes Steatomithes and 

 Podargi). 



yPodargidse. Gadow, in Bronn's Thier-Reich, Vog., ii, 1891, 242, 300 (includes 

 Podargi). 



a The choice of a vernacular name for the birds of this family seems to be between 

 the Jamaican vernacular Potoo and the Paraguayan (Indian) name Ihijau (pronounced 

 Ebehoiv), neither of which, unfortunately, is particularly euphonious. 



