226 NESTS AND EGGS OF 



brush, midst fallen logs, are the favorite nesting places of the Whip- 

 poor-will. 



The eggs are deposited on the ground, on decayed wood, or 

 among fallen leaves. Two eggs constitute a set. They are elliptical, 

 of moderate polish, with a ground color of white or cream color. They 

 are handsomely marked with large and small spots of yellowish-brown 

 distributed rather abundantly over the entire surface ; occasionally a 

 few blotches may be observed. Deep shell marks are about as numer- 

 ous as the surface marks, and are of a lilac-gray or lavender tint. A 

 set of two eggs which I took in Franklin county, Ohio, May 28, 1887, 

 measure i.iSx.QO, i.aox.go; a set from Delaware county, Ohio, col- 

 lected June 2, 1888, measure i.i4x.87, i.i6x.86. Dr. Jones gives a 

 common size as i.isx.88. Like the Chuck-wilPs-widow this species 

 removes in its mouth the eggs or young to a place of safety if they 

 have been molested or handled. 



417#. Antrostomus vociferus arizonae BREWST, 



Stephens's Whip-poor-will. 



Hab. Table Lands of Central Mexico, north to Southern Arizona. 



This is a larger bird than the last. Mr. F. Stephens met with it 

 in the Chiracahua Mountains in Southern Arizona in 1880, and less 

 numerous in the Santa Rita range in 1881. In the Chiracahua range 

 by June ist, they were as common as he ever knew them to be in the 

 East ; sometimes three or four were heard whistling at once. They 

 were restless and rather shy. July 4 a female was shot as she flew 

 from her nest, which, as usual, was only a very slight depression in 

 the ground, but in this case overhung by a rock. Mr. Brewster de- 

 scribes the egg which this nest contained as white with a dull gloss, 

 apparently immaculate, but upon close inspection reveals a few faint 

 blotches of the palest purple, so faint that they might pass for super- 

 ficial stains were it not for the fact that they underlie the external pol- 

 ish. This specimen measures i.i7x.87.* 



418, Phalsenoptilus nuttalli (AUD.) [355 ] 



Poor-will. 



Hab. Western United States, from the Great Plains to the Pacific, south to Southern Mexico. 



Nuttall's Whip-poor-will, or the Poor-will, as it is called, is found 

 to be more or less abundant throughout various States and Territories 

 of the West in the interior valleys and foot-hills of California, Ore- 

 gon and Washington Territory, and in Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, 

 Colorado, etc. Col. N. S. Goss mentions it as a common summer resi- 

 dent of Kansas, and may be looked for on the high prairies and rocky 



* William Brewster's Notes on Some Birds from Arizona and New Mexico. Bull. Nutt. Club, VI, 

 pp. 69-71; and Collection of Arizona Birds, Vol. VII, 211-212. 



