1918. Catalogue of Birds of the Americas — Cory. 125 



Macropsalis forcipata (Nitzsch). Brazilian Nighthawk. 



Caprimulgus forcipatus Nitzsch, Pterylog., 1840, p. 125 (South Brazil). 

 Macropsalis forcipata Hartert, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 603. 

 Macropsalis creagra, Goeldi, Alb. de Aves Amazon, pt. 3, 1906, pi. 46, Fig. 4. 



Range: Eastern Brazil. 



Genus HYDROPSALIS Wagler. 



Hydropsalis Wagler, Isis, 1832, p. 1222 (Type Caprimulgus furcifer Vieill.). 

 Hydropsalis torquata (Gmel.). Ringed Nighthawk. 



Caprimulgus torquatus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., II, 1788, p. 1032 (Brazil). 

 Hydropsalis torquata Hartert, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 598. 

 Caprimulgus psalurus Temminck, PI. Col., 1823, pi. 158. 



Range: Brazil. 



Hydropsalis furcifera ( Vieill.). Fork-tailed Nighthawk. 



Caprimulgus furcifera Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., X, 181 7, p. 242 



(Paraguay). 

 Hydropsalis furcifera Sclater and Hudson, Argentine Orn., II, 1889, p. 15, 



pi. 12; Hartert, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 599; Grant, Ibis, 1911, 



p. 319 (N. Argentine), 



Range: Paraguay to central Brazil, Bolivia and Argentina. 



Hydropsalis climacocerca Tsch. Banded Nighthawk. 



Hydropsalis climacocer.,j. Tschudi Wiegm., Arch, fur Naturg., 1844, p. 269 

 (Peru); Hartert, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XV, 1892, p. 600; Goeldi, Alb. de 

 Aves Amazon, pt. 3, 1906, pi. 46; Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 

 XXXVI, 1917, p. 274 (La Morelia, Colombia). 



Range: Brazil, east Peru, east Ecuador, Colombia and Bolivia. 



Hydropsalis schomburgki Sclater. Schomburgk's Nighthawk. 



Hydropsalis schomburgki Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866, p. 142 (British 

 Guiana); Hartert, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 601; Chubb, Bds. 

 Brit. Guiana, I, 1916, p. 362, pi. VII. 



Range : Guiana. 



Genus ELEOTHREPTUS Gray. 



Eleothreptus Gray, List Gen. Bds., 1840, p. 7 (new name to replace Amblypterus 

 Gould, preoccupied) (Type Amblypterus anomalus Gould). 



Eleothreptus anomalus (Gould). Short-winged Nighthawk. 



Amblypterus anomalus Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1837, p. 105 (" Brazil ")• 

 Heleothreptus anomalus Hartert, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 593; 

 Sclater and Hartert, Argentine Orn., II, 1889, p. 16. 



Range: Central and southern Brazil and Argentina. 



