196 CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Order MACROCHIRES. Goatsuckers, 

 Swifts, etc. 



SuBOEDEB CAPRIMULGI. Goatsuckers, etc. 



Family CAPRIMULGIDiE. Goatsuckers, etc. 

 Genus ANTROSTOMUS Bonaparte. 



Antrostomus Bonaparte, Geog. & Comp. List, 1838, 8. Type, by subs. 

 desig., Caprimulgua carolinensis Gmelin (Gray, 1840.) 



Antr6stoinus carolinensis (Gmelin). Chuck-will's-widow. [416.] 



Caprimulgus carolinensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, ii, 1789, 1028. (Carolina.) 



Range. — Southern North America and northern South America. 

 Breeds in Austroriparian Zone from Missouri, Indiana, southern Ohio, 

 and southern Virginia south to central Texas and Gulf States; casual 

 in Kansas and Maryland; accidental in Massachusetts and Ontario; 

 migrates through eastern Mexico; winters from southern Florida to 

 Greater Antilles, Central America, and Colombia. 



Antrostomus vociferus (Wilson). 



Range. — Southern Canada south, east of Rocky Mountains, to 

 Gulf coast, and to southern Arizona and tableland of Mexico; in 

 winter south to Salvador. 



a. Antrostomus vociferus vociferus (Wilson). Whip-poor-will. [417.] 



Caprimulgus vociferus Wilson, Amer. Orn., V, 1812, 71, pi. 41, figs. 1-3. 

 (Eastern United States [probably near Philadelphia, Pa.].) 



Range. — Eastern North America. Breeds from Manitoba, southern 

 Quebec, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia south to northern parts of 

 Louisiana, Mississippi, and Georgia, and from eastern North Dakota, Ne- 

 braska, and Kansas eastward; winters from the lowlands of South Carolina 

 and the southern parts of the Gulf States to British Honduras and Salvador. 



