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southward through eastern Mexico, in State of Tamaulipas, Vera 

 Cruz (Orizaba; Jalapa), Puebla (Tlalcotepec ; Jaguey de la Magda- 

 lena), etc.," to Guatemala (Coban; between Coban and Chisec; 

 Sonteh; San Ger6nimo) and Salvador (La Libertad), casually to 

 Costa Rica (near San Jose, 1 specimen). Accidental in Porto Rico. 



" Caprimulgiis minor Forst[ek], Cat. An. N. A., 1771, 13." 



Caprirmdgus virginianus {not oi Graelin) Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept., i, 1807, 55, 

 part, pi. 23 (text mixed with that pertaining to Chordeiles virginianus). 



Caprimulgus vociferus Wilson, Am. Orn., v, 1812, 71, pi. 41, figs. 1, 2, 3 (eastern 

 U. S., probably near Philadelphia). — Bonaparte, Synopsis Birds U. S., 

 1828, 62; Proc. Zool. See. Lond., 1837, 119 (Guatemala).— Swainson and 

 Richardson, Fauna Bor.-Am., ii, 1831, 336 (north shore of Lake Huron). — 

 Audubon, Orn. Biog., i, 1831, 422, pi. 82; v, 1839, 405; Synopsis, 1839, 31; 

 Birds Am., oct. ed., i, 1840, 155, pi. 42. — Nuttall, Man. Orn. U. S. and Can., 

 Land Birds, 1832, 614.— Thienemann, Fortpfl. Vog., 1854, pi. 42, fig. 17 

 (egg).— Willis, An. Rep. Smithson. Inst, for 1858 (1859), 281 (Nova Scotia, 

 rare summer resident). — Trippe, Proc. Essex Inst., vi, 1871, 114 (Min- 

 nesota).— Ridg way, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., iii, 1880, 5 (crit.), 188; Nom. N. 

 Am. Birds, 1881, no. 354.— Merriam, Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vi, 1881, 231 

 (Adirondack Mts., New York).— Brown (N. C), Proc. Portland Soc. N. 

 H., 1882, [19] (Portland, Maine, rare); Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club, vii, 1882, 

 40 (Boerne, Kendall Co., Texas, & 1 spec, April 2), 149 (Houlton, Maine, 

 rare). — Agersborg, Auk, v, 1885, 283 (s. e. South Dakota). — Hartert, 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 568 (Rio Fuerte, Sinaloa; & Sierra deTepic;& 

 Jalapa, Vera Cruz; San Geronimo, Sonteh, and Coban, Guatemala; La 

 Libertad, Salvador). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 

 1894, 385. 



C[aprimulgus\ vociferus Maximilian, Journ. fiir Orn., 1858, 98. — Ridgway, Ann. 

 Lye. N. Y., X, 1874, 376 (Illinois). — Hartert, Tierreich, Podarg., Caprim., 

 Macropt., 1897, 42. 



[Cajprimidgus'] vociferus Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 84. 



Antrostomus vociferus Bonaparte, Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, 8. — Cassin, 

 Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1851, 183; Journ. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., ii, 1852, 

 122; Cat. Caprim. Mus. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1852, 13; Illustr. Birds Calif., 

 Tex., etc., 1855, 236.— Brewer, N. Apa. Ool., 1, 1857, 84.— Baird, Rep. 

 Pacific R. R. Surv., ix, 1858, 148; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 112.— 

 Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1859, 367 (Jalapa, Vera Cruz); 1866, 137 

 (monogr.); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 280; Journ. fiir Orn., 1867, 268.— Salvin 

 and Sclater, Ibis, 1860, 275 (Coban and San Geronimo, Guatemala).— Ver- 

 RiLL (A. E.), Proc. Essex Inst., iii, 1862, 144 (Oxford Co., Maine, common 

 summer resident). — Blakiston, Ibis, 1863, 55 (Red River Settlement, lat. 

 50°, Manitoba; Saskatchewan; Red Lake R., Minnesota). — McIl wraith, 

 Proc. Essex Inst., v, 1866, 83 (Hamilton, Ontario). — Allen, Bull. Mus. 

 Comp. Zool., ii, 1871, 300 (e. Florida, winter resident); iii, 1872, 129, 179 

 (Leavenworth, Kansas). — Snow, Birds Kansas, 1873, 3. — Coues, Check List, 



a The British Museum "Catalogue of Birds" (xvi, 1892, 570) lists two specimens 

 from western Mexico (Rio Fuerte, Sinaloa, and Sierra de Tepic), but these may be 

 A. V. macromystax. 



b Specimens from these localities may represent A. v. macromystax, especially the 

 second and third. 



