CAPRIMULGID.E — THE GOATST'CKERS. 



401 



Chordeiles popetue, viu. popetue, liAiiu). 



NIQHT-HAWK; BULL-BAT. 



Caprimulijici popetue, Vir.ii.i.cir, f)is. Am. Si.pt. I, iMir. fiti, pi. .\.\iv (9). Clii>n/,:iles 

 popelue, li.uui), liiids N. Am. Is.-.s, ir.l. — L(piii>, I'r. li. A. Inst. IV, IStU, 113 

 (Ur. Col. lu'stiiig). — t'lMii'Kii i ,SriKi.KV, Hill. — .S.vmukl.s, 122. Vnprhnitli/u.'iumcri- 

 mnus, \ViL.soN, V, 1812, 05, ],\. lxI. C. 1, 2. Chordeiles amcricanus, DkK.vy, N. Y. 

 Zoiil. II, 1844, 34, pi. .\.\vii. t'd/iriniiilniin n'njiiiiiniu.s, Biii.s.'^o.N, II, 17ii(», 477 (in 

 part only). — Aua Oni. liioj,'. 11, l,s;54, 273, pi. txlvii. — Max. Tali. .1. VI, 1858. — 

 WAliTHAl-.sKS, Cub. J. IStiS, 37:i (nesting). (J(i/)i-i„iiil(jiis (Clii>ril,ilcs) rin/iniuiiiis, 

 .Sw. V. Hor.-Am. II. 1831, ti2. ( lioi-ikih-s cinjinimiuit, Hon. List, 1838. — Ari). IJinls 

 Am. I, 1840, LIU, pi. xliii. — Nkwmkuhy, ZoiJl. Cnl. and Oregon Honte, 7!) ; Kup. P. 

 H. H. Surv. VI, 18.07. Loiiij-u-iiiijnl il„„lxiii-k-er, rKSSAxr, .Vretic Zoiil. 11, 17S.i, 337. 



Sp. Chak. Male, ubovo grounish-lilack, but with litilc iMoiiliiijr on the lioad and back. 

 Wing-coverti? varied with 

 grayi.«h ; .seapulars with yel- 

 lovvisli-riifoii!;. A miohal band 

 of fine gray niottling-, behind 

 whieh is another co.ir.ser one 

 of rufon.>f .«pots. A white.- V- 

 .'ihaped mark on the throat; 

 behind this a colhvr of pale 

 rufous blotches, and another 

 on the breast of grayish 

 mottling. Under paits band- 

 ed transversely with dull yel- 

 lowish or reildi,>;h-wliite and 

 brown. AVing-(|uills q\iite 

 uniformly brown. The live 

 outer primaries with a white 

 blotch (about half an inch 

 long) midw.iy between the 

 tip and carpal joint, not extending on the outer well of tlic outer quill. Tail with a 

 terminal white patch, which does not reach the outer edge of the feathers. Female with- 

 out the caudal "diite piitdi, tlic white tail-banils more mottled, the white of ilie throat 

 mixed witli roddisli. Length of nnile, O.'iO; wing, 8.20. 



IIab. United States and north to Hudson TJay ; in winter visits Greater Antilles, 

 and southward to Central America (Rio .Faneiro, Pi;i,zi:i,x) ; said to breed in .Taniica. In 

 Rocky Mountains, replaced l)y the variety hennji. Localities: Trout Lake. 11. B. T. 

 (Murray, Edinl). Phil. Journ. 1800); Bahamas (Bryant, Bost. 8o(;. Vll, 18."ii)) ; Guate- 

 mala (ScL. Ibis, II, 27")) ; Cuba (Lawr.) ; Janniica (March, P. A. N. 8. 18G.3, 28."), breeds) ; 

 Matamoras (Drksskh, Ibis, ISG.'i, 471, breeds) ; Rio Janeiro, January (Pki.z.. Orn. Hra.s. 

 L 14); Veragua (Sai.vin, P. Z. S. 1870, 203). 



Habits. Tlie common Night-Hawk of North America is a very common 

 species throii<i;lioiit a widely exteiideil area, and within tlie United States 

 breeds wlierever fonnd. Its range extends from Florida and Texas to the 

 extreme northern latitudes, and from the Atlantic at least to the great Cen- 

 tral Plains. It has been found as far to the south as Panama. 



At Matamoras Mr. Dresser found this species alnmdant during the sum- 



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Chortli ilfs pap^tite. 



