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Genus CHORDEILES, Swainson. 



Chordeiles, Swainson, Fauna Bor. Amcr. II. 1831, 496. 



Gen. Char. Bill very small, the gape with ^•ery short feeble bristles. Wings very 

 long and pointed, with the first quill nearly or quite equal to the second, and the prima- 



C. popetue. 



ries not cmarginated on the inner edge. Tail long ; slightly forked in Xorth American 

 species ; plumage rather compact. 



Chordeiles popetue, Vieillot. 



THE NIGHT-HAWK; THE BULL-BAT. 



Caprimuhjus popetue, ViEiLLOT, Ois. Am. Sept. I. 1807, 56; pi. xxiv. (?).— Bonaparte, 



Obs. Wilson, 1825, 177 ; J. A. N. Sc. Phil. VI.— Chordeiles popetue, Baird, P. R. Rep. 



IX. Birds, 151. — IIeermann, X. vi. 35. — Cooper and Suckley, XII. iii. Zool. of W. 



T. 166. 

 Caprimulijus Americnnns, WiLSOX, Am. Orn. V. 1812, 65; ])1. cxl. f 1, 2.— Chordeiles 



Ainericanus, I)e Kay, N. Y. Zool. II. 1844, 34 ; pi. xxvii. 

 Caprimulfjus Vinjiiiianus, Brisson, 11.1760,477. (In part only.) Acdubon, Orn. Biog. 



II. 1834, 273 ; pi. 147. — SwAiNSON, Fauna Bor. Amer. II. 1831, 62. 

 Chordeiles Viryinmmis, Box. List, 1838. — AuD. Birds Amer. I. 1840, 159; pi. 43. — Cassin, 



IIlus. I. 1855, 238. —Newberry, Zool. Cal. and Or Route, 79; P. R. Rep. VI. 1857. 

 Cliordeiles Henryi, Cassin, IlUis. I. Jan. 1855, 233. —Baird, P. R. Rep. IX. Birds, 153, 



922; X. iii. 13 ; pi. xvii. — CouES, Pr. Phil. Ac. 1866, 58. (Arizona.) 



Sp. Char. Male, above greenish-black, with but little mottling on the head and back. 

 AVing coverts varied with grayish ; scapulars with yellowish-rufous. A nuchal band ot 



