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156. Chordeiles minor minor (Forster). 



NiGHTHAWK. 



Gundlach says that our Nighthawk passes Cuba on migration regularly 

 in October and in May. These dates are not very convincing, nor^ is 

 Gundlach sufficiently definite for one to be very sure either of the regularity 

 of appearances or of his identification — except that in October, at least, 

 the resident or breeding Nighthawk is absent. That there is something in 

 all this is evidenced by the fact that on May 10, 1904, W. R. Zappey shot 

 a typical Northern bird at Santa Fe in the Isle of Pines (M. C. Z., no. 

 113,249). This has been commented upon by Todd (1. c, p. 236). 



157. Antrostomus carolinensis (Gmelin). 

 Chuck-wills-widow. 



A common annual visitant to the more retired and overgrown pasture 

 lands and stream bottoms. My latest spring Chuck-wills-widow was on 

 May 12, 1916, near Havana. They are more often met with around the 

 Cienaga than elsewhere. The guajiro renders the call Guabairo, and knows 

 that when he hears it in the spring the birds will be leaving in a few days. 



158. Antrostomus cubanensis Lawrence. 

 Guabairo. 



While Todd calls this Sctochalcis, I am far from convinced that there 

 are any real generic characters involved in the separation, and feel that 

 the bird is really congeneric with the other Whippoorwills. 



The Goatsucker occurs sparingly all over the Island, but is rare every- 

 where. I have a breeding pair and the eggs, taken at the Playa del Chivo 



