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BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Western United, States, breeding in Transition and Upper Sonoran 

 zones; north to southeastern British Columbia ("from Kamloops 

 to the Okanogan"), Idaho (Blackfoot), Montana (Valley, Custer, 

 Gallatin, and Fergus counties), and northwestern North Dakota; 

 east to southeastern South Dakota, eastern Nebraska, western Iowa 

 (GrinneU), eastern Kansas (Shawnee, Riley, and Lyon Counties), 

 and western and central Texas (Pecos, Bexar, Navarro, Tom Green, 

 Concho, Mason, Eastland, and Brewster Coimties; Medina River; 

 Devils River; Red River); west to eastern base of Cascade and 

 Sierra Nevada Mountains; south through Lower California (except 

 San Pedro Martir Mountains, and northwest coast district?) to 

 Sierra de la Laguna (Jime), and through Sonora (Providencia Mines, 

 May), and Chihuahua (San Diego), to northern CoahuUa (Sabinas, 

 May 21; SaltiUo, May 6) and Guanajuato, central Mexico. 



Cajnimulgus nuttalUi AvDVBON, Om. Biog., v, 1839, 335 (nomen nudum); Birds 

 Am., Oct. ed., vii, 1844, 350, pi. 495 (east bank of Missouri R., between Ft. 

 Union and Ft. Pierre). — Woodhouse, Rep. Sitgreavea'a expl. Zuni and Col. 

 R., 1853, 63 (Arizona). — Koenig-Warthatjsen, Joum. fiir Om., 1868, 379 

 (nesting; descr. eggs). 



[Caprimulgiis] nuttalUi Gbat, Hand-list, i, 1869, 59, no. 662. 



Antrostomits nuttalUi Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1851, 183; Jotim. Ac. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila., ii, pt. ii, Jan. 1852, 123.— Bhewbb, N. Am. Oology, 1857, 

 86. — (?)Newbeebt, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., vi, pt. iv, no. 2, 1857, 77, 

 part (California; Oregon; habits). — Kbnnbbly, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., 

 X, no. 3, 1859, 23 (Colorado R.).— Allen, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., iii, 1872, 129 

 (Topeka, Kansas, common), 179 (e. Kansas; Colorado, up to 8,000 ft.; 

 Utah). — Henshaw, Rep. Om. Spec. Wheeler's Surv., 1874, 129 (Apache, 

 Camp Grant, etc., Arizona; descr. young). 



Antrostomus nuttalli Cassin, Cat. Caprim. Mus. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1852, 13; 

 lUustr. Birds CaUf., Texas, etc., 1855, 237.^ — BAran, in Stansbury's Rep. 

 Gt. Salt Lake, 1852, 327, part (Ft. Union); Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., 

 ix, 1858, 149, part; Cat. N. Am. Birds, 1859, no. 113, part; Rep. U. S. 

 and Mex. Bound. Surv., ii, pt. 2, 1859, 6 (Rio Mimbrea, New Mexico; 

 habits). — Heehmann, Rep. Pacific R. R. Surv., x, pt. iv, no. 2, 1859, 



Footnote— Continued. 



Locality. 



Wing. 



Tail. 



Ex- 

 posed 

 culmen. 



Tarsus. 



Middle 

 toe. 



FEMALES. 



Eight adult lemales from Texas (7) and New Mexico (1) 



Three adult females from Colorado, Montana, and Idaho 



Nine adult females from Arizona 



One adult female from s. Lower California (June) 



One adult female from n. Lower California (May 28) 



Two adult females from s.e. California 



Five adult females from Nevada (3) and Utah (2) 



One adult female from Coahuila (May) 



One adult female from Sonora (May) 



Eleven adult females from n. w. California (P. n. ca2i/oraicu«) 

 One adult female from w. coast Lower California (May) 



139.6 



145.5 



143.2 



142 



142.5 



144.7 



145.1 



137 



150 



141.1 



134 



83.2 



84.7 



86.1 



95.5 



83.5 



91 



85.4 



84 



88 



84.6 



12.6 



11.8 



12.2 



10 



11.5 



12.2 



12.4 



12 



12 



11.5 



10.5 



18.1 



17.5 



17.4 



16.5 



17.6 



17 



17.4 



IS 



17.5 



17 



17.5 



17.8 



17.8 



17.1 



17.5 



17.5 



17 



17.8 



18 



17 



17.1 



17 



