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Range: Western United States, from Nebraska, Kansas and South 

 Dakota north to south eastern British Colombia, south to central Mexico 

 and Lower California. 



fii: Arizona 6; Colorado 3; and Mexico (Sonora) 2. 



*Phalaenoptilus nuttalli califomicus Ridgway. Dusky Poorwil . 



Phalaenoptilus nuttalli califomicus Ridgway, Man. N. A. Bds., 1887, p. 588, 

 footnote (Nicasio, Marion County, California); Id., Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., 

 No. 50, VI, 1914, p. 552. 



Range: California, except southeastern and northeastern Desert 

 districts; northern Lower California? 



2 : California (Nicasio and Pasadena) . 



Genus OTOPHANES Brewster. 



Otophanes Brewster, Auk, 1888, p. 88 (Type Otophanes mcleodii Brewster). 



Otophanes mcleodii Brewster. Eared Poorwill. 



Otophanes mcleodii Brewster, Auk, 1888, p. 89 (Sierra Madre of Chihuahua, 

 Mexico); Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, p. 555. 



Range: Northwestern Mexico; Vera Cruz? 



Genus NYCTAGREUS Nelson. 



Nyciagreus Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., 1901, p. 171 (Type Caprimulgus 

 yucatanensis Hartert). 



Nyctagreus jmcatenensis (Hartert). Yucatan Poorwill. 



Caprimulgus yucatanensis Hartert, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 575 



(Tizimin, Yucatan). 

 Nyctagreus yucatanensis Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 1914, 



P- 557- 

 Range: Yucatan and Campeche, southeastern Mexico. 



Genus THERMOCHALCIS Richmond. 



Thermochalcis Richmond, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., XXVIII, 1915, p. 180 (new 

 name for Stenopsis Cassin, preoccupied) (Type Caprimulgus cayennensis 

 Gmel.). 



*Thermochalcis cayemiensis cayennensis {Gmel.) . Cayenne Stenopsis. 



Caprimulgus cayennensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, pt. II, 1789, p. 1031 (Cayenne). 

 Stenopsis cayennensis Hartert, Cat. Bds. Brit. Mus., XVI, 1892, p. 583, part. 

 Stenopsis cayennensis cayennensis Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., No. 50, VI, 



1914, p. 498, in key; Chapman, Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., XXXVI, 1917, p. 274 



(La Playa, Villavicencio, Colombia). 



