ORDER MACROCHIRES. 197 
b. Antrostomus vociferus macromystax (WaGcLER). Stephens’s Whip- 
poor-will. [417a.]} 
Caprimulgus macromysiax WaAGLER, Isis, XXIV, 1831, 533. (Mexico.) 
RanGe.— Southern Arizona, New Mexico, and southwestern Texas south 
through the mountains of northern Mexico; in winter south to Guatemala. 
GENUS PHALASNOPTILUS Ripeway. 
Phalenoptilus Ripaway, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., III, 1880, 5. Type, by 
orig. desig., Caprimulgus nuttallii AUDUBON. 
Phalen6ptilus nuttalli (AUDUBON). 
RANGE.— Central and western North America from the Plains 
westward to California, and from southeastern British Columbia 
south, in winter, to central Mexico. 
a. Phalenoptilus nuttalli nuttalli (AupuBoN). Poor-will. [418.] 
Caprimulgus nuttallii AupuUBON, Birds Amer., VII, 1844, 350, pl. 495. 
(Upper Missouri, between Fort Pierre and mouth of Cheyenne River, 
South Dakota.) 
RancGe.— Western North America. Breeds in Transition and Upper Son- 
oran zones from southeastern British Columbia, northwestern North Dakota, 
and southern South Dakota south to southern Arizona, northern Coahuila, 
and southern Texas; west to eastern California east of the Sierra; winters 
from southeastern California and southern Texas to central Mexico. 
6. Phalenoptilus nuttalli nitidus Brewster. Frosted Poor-will. [418a.] 
Phalenoptilus nuttalli nitidus Brewster, Auk, IV, April, 1887, 147. 
(Nueces River, Texas.) 
Rance.— Western Kansas south to Coahuila, west to Arizona and the 
Cape Region of Lower California. 
c. Phalznoptilus nuttalli californicus Ripaway. Dusky Poor-will. [418b.] 
Phalenoptilus nuttalli californicus Rripaway, Manual N. A. Birds, 1887, 
588 (note). (Nicasio, California.) 
RancE.— California west of the Sierra Nevada from about latitude 40° south 
to the San Pedro Martir Mountains, Lower California. Breeds in Transition 
and Upper Sonoran zones. 
