196 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



ORDER MACKOCHIRES. GOATSUCKERS, 

 SWIFTS, ETC. 



SUBORDER CAPRIMULGI. GOATSUCKERS, ETC. 



FAMILY GAPRIMULGIDJE. GOATSUCKERS, ETC. 

 GENUS ANTROSTOMUS BONAPARTE. 



Antrostomus BONAPARTE, Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 8. Type, by subs, 

 desig., Caprimulgus carolinensis GMELIN (Gray, 1840.) 



Antrdstomus carolinensis (GMELIN). Chuck-will' s-widow. [416.] 



Caprimulgus carolinensis GMELIN, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 1028. (Carolina.) 



RANGE. Southern North America and northern South America. 

 Breeds in Austroripariari Zone from Missouri, Indiana, southern Ohio, 

 and southern Virginia south to central Texas and Gulf States; casual 

 in Kansas and Maryland; accidental in Massachusetts and Ontario; 

 migrates through eastern Mexico; winters from southern Florida to 

 Greater Antilles, Central America, and Colombia. 



Antrostomus vociferus (WILSON). 



RANGE. Southern Canada south, east of Rocky Mountains, to 

 Gulf coast, and to southern Arizona and tableland of Mexico; in 

 winter south to Salvador. 



a. Antrostomus vociferus vociferus (WILSON). Whip-poor-will. [417.] 



Caprimulgus vociferus WILSON, Amer. Orn., V, 1812, 71, pi. 41, figs. 1-3. 

 (Eastern United States [probably near Philadelphia, Pa.].) 



RANGE. Eastern North America. Breeds from Manitoba, southern 

 Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia south to northern parts of 

 Louisiana, Mississippi, and Georgia, and from eastern North Dakota, Ne- 

 braska, and Kansas eastward; winters from the lowlands of South Carolina 

 and the southern parts of the Gulf States to British Honduras and Salvador. 



