CAPRIMULaiD^ — THE GOATSUCKERS. 



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Chordeiles popetue, var. popetue, Baikd. 



NIGHT-HAWK; BULL-BAT. 



Caprimulgus popetue, Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept. I, 1807, 56, pi. xxiv (9). Chordeiles 

 po2)etue, Baird, Birds N. Am. 1858, 151. — Lord, Pr. R. A. Inst. IV, 1864, 113 

 (Br. Col. nesting). — Cooper & Suckley, 166. — Samuels, 122. Caprimulgus aTneri- 

 canus, Wilson, V, 1812, 65, pi. cxl. f. 1, 2. Chordeiles americanus, DeKay, N. Y. 

 Zool. II, 1844, 34, pi. xxvii. Cap)rimulgus virginianus, Brisson, II, 1760, 477 (in 

 part only). — AuD. Orn. Biog. II, 1834, 273, pi. cxlvii. — Max. Cab. J. VI, 1858. — 

 Warthausen, Cab. J. 1868, 373 (nesting). Caprimulgus {Chordeiles) virginianus, 

 Sw. F. Bor.-Am. II. 1831, 62. Chordeiles virginianus, Bon. List, 1838. — AuD. Birds 

 Am. I, 1840, 159, pi. xliii. — Newberry, Zool. CaL and Oregon Route, 79 ; Rep. P. 

 R. R. Surv. VI, 1857. Long-winged Goatsucker, Pennant, Arctic Zool. II, 1785, 337. 



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

 Wing-coverts varied with 

 grayish ; scapulars with yel- 

 lowish-rufous. A nuchal band 

 of fine gray mottling, behind 

 which is another coarser one 

 of rufous spots. A white V- 

 shaped mark on the throat ; 

 behind this a collar of pale 

 rufous blotches, and another 

 on the breast of grayish 

 mottling. Under parts band- 

 ed transversely with dull yel- 

 lowish or reddish-white and 

 brown. Wing-quills quite 

 uniformly brown. The five 

 outer primaries with a white 

 blotch (about half an inch cnordtms popetue. 



long) midway between the 



tip and carpal joint, not extending on the outer web of the outer quill. Tail with a 

 terminal white patch, which does not reach the outer edge of the feathers. Female with- 

 out the caudal white patch, the Avhite tail-bands more mottled, the white of the throat 

 mixed with reddish. Length of male, 9.50 ; wing, 8.20. 



Hab. United States and north to Hudson Bay ; in winter visits Greater Antilles, 

 and southward to Central America (Rio Janeiro, Pelzeln) ; said to breed in Jamica. In 

 Rocky Mountains, replaced by the variety henryi. Localities: Trout Lake, H. B. T. 

 (Murray, Edinb. Phil. Journ. 1860) ; Bahamas (Bryant, Bost. Soc. VII, 1859) ; Guate- 

 mala (ScL. Ibis, II, 275) ; Cuba (Lawr.) ; Jamaica (March, P. A. N. S. 1863, 285, breeds) ; 

 Matamoras (Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 471, breeds) ; Rio Janeiro, January (Pelz., Orn. Bras. 

 L 14) ; Veragua (Salvin, P. Z. S. 1870, 203). 



Habits. The common Night-Hawk of North America is a very common 

 species throughout a widely extended area, and within the United States 

 breeds wherever found. Its range extends from Florida and Texas to the 

 extreme northern latitudes, and from the Atlantic at least to the great Cen- 

 tral Plains. It has been found as far to the south as Panama. 



At Matamoras Mr. Dresser found this species abundant during the sum- 



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