1 68 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Order MACROCHIRES. Goatsuckers, 

 Swifts, etc. 



Suborder CAPRIMULGI. Goatsuckers, etc. 

 Family CAFRIMULGID^. Goatsuckers, etc. 



Genus ANTROSTOMUS Gould. 



Antrostomus Gould, Icones Avium, 1838. Type, Caprimulgus 

 carolinensis Gmel. 



416. Antrostomus carolinensis (Gmel.). 



Chuck- wilPS'-widow. 



Caprimulgus caroli?iensis Gmel. S. N. I. ii. 1788, 1028. 

 Antrostomus carolinensis Gould, Icones Avium, 1838. 



[Bin, C 264, R 353, C396.] 



Geog. Dist. — South Atlantic and Gulf States, from Virginia south 

 through eastern Mexico to Central America ; Cuba. North, in the 

 interior, to southern Illinois and Kansas. Accidental in Massachu- 

 setts. 



417. Antrostomus vociferus (Wils.). 



Whip-poor-'will. 



Caprimulgus vociferus^ \\Ji>. Am. Orn. V. 18 12, 71, pi. 41, figs. 1-3. 

 Antrostomus vociferus Bonap. Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 8. 



[B 112, C 265, R 354, C 397.] 



Geog. Dist. — Eastern North America to the Plains, and from 

 Lat. 50° south to Guatemala. 



