404 DAVENPORT ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



ADDENDA. 



Family CAPRI MULGID^. The Goat-suckers. 

 Genus Phal.^noptilus Ridgwa3\ 

 354. (418). Phahenoptihis mittalli (Aud.). Poorwill. 



The Poorwill is a species which has been reported from Iowa 

 upon more or less questionable records, but seems to occasionally 

 straggle into the state from the west. 



Professor H. W. Cooke says: "The scarcity of the preceding 

 species [Whippoorwill] on the plains has been noted. Its place 

 there is taken by the present species, which is a rather common 

 summer resident in Texas, Kansas, Nebraska, and Dakota, pass- 

 ing eastward, even to Grinnell, Iowa, where an accidental visitant 

 was taken in 1880" (Bird Migr. in Miss. Val., 1884-85, p. 136). 

 Colonel N. S. Goss (Birds of Kansas, 1891, p. 345) gives the range 

 of the species as "western U. S., east into Iowa and Missouri; " 

 and Major Charles Bendire (lyife Hist, of N. A. Birds, ii, 1895, p. 

 153) as "casual east to Iowa and Missouri." Bruner, Wolcott, 

 and Swenk give the status of the species in Nebraska as ' ' west- 

 ern part of state, common; breeding in the canyons of Sioux 

 county and east at least to Long Pine canyon, probably across the 

 state northward." (Rev. Birds of Neb., 1904, p. 61). 



Carl Kelsey gives the Poorwill as a " rare accidental visitant ' ' 

 in Poweshiek county (O. & O., xvi, 9, 1891, pp. 13 1-4), but Pro- 

 fessor L,ynds Jones of Oberlin, Ohio, in a letter of March 3, 1904, 

 states that this was "Wrongly entered. Records based upon 

 hearing alone . . . closely resembled the cry of the birds which 

 I heard in Algona in 1900. I have suppressed the record." 



Dr. Isidor S. Trostler gives the species as a "Very rare summer 

 resident in Pottawattamie county. I took a set of two eggs May 

 5, 1895; ^i^<^ ^^'^^'^ almost to pieces, but enough saved to make 

 identity certain." 



