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third of three outer tail-feathers, and increasing in extent from exterior 
feather. 
c. Smaller, with white tail-patch of male more extended, throat-bar 
chiefly or wholly white in adult male, the lores and auriculars less 
tawny. Young: Scapulars, wing-coverts, sides of neck, etc., bright 
ochraceous-buff, the first marked with large roundish spots of 
black; top of head finely mottled grayish, spotted, instead of 
marked longitudinally, with black, the spots larger in centre of 
crown; lower parts almost plain light buffy ; otherwise, essentially 
like adult. Length about 9.50-10.00, wing 5.80-6.70, tail 5.10-6.50, 
longer rictal bristles about 1.40-1.70 (but much slenderer than in 
A. macromystax). Eggs deposited on ground or dead leaves in woods, 
1.15 x .84, creamy white or pure white, spotted or blotched with 
lilac-gray, or lilac-gray and pale brown. Hab. Hastern United 
States, north to British Provinces (Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, 
Manitoba, etc.), west to edge of Great Plains; south, in winter, 
through eastern Mexico to Guatemala. 
417. A. vociferus (Wits.). Whippoorwill. 
c. Larger, with white tail-patch of adult male less extended, throat-bar 
largely or entirely ochraceous in adult male, the lores and auriculars 
(whole plumage, in fact) more tawny; length 9.60-10.20, wing 6.27- 
6.65, tail 5.03-5.45, longer rictal bristles about 1.40-1.80. Hab. Table- 
lands of central Mexico, north to southern Arizona. 
417a. A. vociferus macromystax (WAGL.). 
Stephens’s Whippoorwill. 
Gexus PHALAZNOPTILUS Riveway. (Page 297, pl. LXXXIX., fig. 1.) 
Species. 
Adult male: Top of head soft velvety grayish, barred with dusky; under tail- 
coverts plain buff; upper parts in general soft brownish gray, with a very velvety, 
moth-like surface, relieved by irregular spottings and zigzags of black, the outer 
webs of the quills spotted with deep buff, or ochraceous ; throat with a large trans- 
verse patch of white; other lower parts (except tail-coverts) barred with blackish 
and light buffy; tail-feathers (except middle pair) broadly tipped with white. 
Adult female : Similar to the male, but usually with white tips to tail-feathers nar- 
rower. Young: Much like adult, but colors above more silvery gray, mixed moro 
or less with bright rusty or ochraceous, the black markings smaller and less dis- 
tinct, the white of throat and tail reduced in extent, and tinged with ochraceous 
or rusty. Length 7.25-8.50, wing 5.60-5.75, tail 3.70-3.90. Eggs deposited on 
ground in open places, .99 x .75, plain dead white, usually with a faint buffy or 
pinkish tinge. Hab. Western United States, east to across Great Plains, south to 
Southern Mexico........sesccssenecreceeesceeeseneneeeaens 418. P. nuttalli (Aup.). Poorwill. 
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