146 LIFE HISTORIES OF NOETH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



The type specimeu, No. 20444 (PL 1, Fig. 8), from a set of two eggs, 

 Bendire collection, was taken in Comal County, Texas, on June 15, 1879, and 

 represents a small but a very handsome egg. No. 24488 (PI. 1, Fig. 9), also 

 from a set of two eggs, from the Ralph collection, was taken by Dr. William L. 

 Ralph, in Putnam County, Florida, on May 1, 1891, and represents one of the 

 bolder-marked types, the specimen being somewhat above the average size. 



52. Antrostomus vociferus (Wilson). 



WHIP-POOE-WILL. 



Caprimulgus vociferus Wilson, American Ornithology, V, 1812, 71, PI. 41, Figs. 1-3. 

 Antrostomus vociferus Bonaparte, Geographical and Comparative List, 1838, 8. 

 (B 112, C 265, R 354, C 397, U 417.) 



Geographical range: Eastern North America; north to the southern portions of 

 the Dominion of Canada in the provinces of Nova Scotia, Quebec, and northern Ontario, 

 to southwestern Keewatin and western Manitoba; west in the United States through 

 eastern North and South Dakota, Nebraska, western Kansas, the Indian Territory, and 

 Texas; south in winter through eastern Mexico to Guatemala. Casual to Porto Rico and 

 the West Indies. 



While the lamiliar call of the Whip-poor-will, from which it receives its 

 name, is almost universally known to every farmer's boy throughout its range, 

 the bird itself is not nearly so often correctly identified, and our common 

 Nighthawk, or Bull-bat, is frequently mistaken for the author of these notes. 

 It is only a summej" visitor tln-oughout the greater portion of the United States 

 and the southern parts of the Dominion of Canada, usually arriving from its 

 winter haunts in Guatemala and southern Mexico, along the southern portions 

 of its breeding range in the United States, about the middle of March; and 

 moving leisurely northward, it reaches our middle States about April 15, and 

 the more northern ones from one to three weeks later. Not a few Whip-poor- 

 wills winter regularly in the southern parts of Florida, as well as along the Gulf 

 coast of Louisiana; these are probably birds which breed mainly north of the 

 United States. As far as I have been able to ascertain, this species reaches 

 the extreme northern limits of its range on the north shore of Lake Winnipeg, 

 near Norway House, one of the Hudson Bay Company's Posts, situated in the 

 soutliwestern part of the Province of Keewatin, in about latitude 54°. It is a 

 common summer resident in suitable localities throughout Manitoba, and a set 

 of eggs is now in the United States National Museum collection taken by Mr. 

 William MacTavish, near Lake Manitoba, in June, 1862. The western limits of 

 its range extend well into the Great Plains. Mr. A. W. Menke writes me that 

 he has shot this species in Finney County, in south-s^'estern Kansas, where it 

 evidently breeds, but is rare; and it is undoubtedly also a summer resident 

 throughout the greater part of Nebraska, as well as of North and South Dakota. 



Mr. William Lloyd records it as a summer resident hi the eastern portions 

 of Concho County, and Mr. H. P. Attwater observed it in Bexar County, Texas. 



