BIRDS OF NOHTH AND MIDDLE AMEElCA. 583 



[Chordediles] texensis Heine and Rbichbnow, Nom. Mua. Hein. Orn., 1890, 191 

 (Mexico). 



Chordeiles acutipennis, var. texensis Baied, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. N. Am, 

 Birds, ii, 1874, 406, part.— Merrill, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., i, 1878, 146 (Ft. 

 Brown, Texas; habits; notes; descr. eggs). 



Chordeiles acutipennis . . . var. texensis Henshaw, Rep. Orn. Spec. Wheeler's 

 Surv., 1874, 129 (Gila R., Arizona). 



Chordeiles acutipennis texensis Ridgwat, Proc. TJ. S. Nat. Mus., iii, March 27, 1880, 

 5 (crit.), 188, part; Nom. N. Am. Birds, 1881, no. 358, part. — Belding, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus., V, 1883, 543, part (San Diego, California, May). — American 

 Ornithologists' Union Committee, Auk, xii, 1895, 167, part; Check List, 

 2d ed., 1895, no. 421, part; 3rd ed., 1910, 199, part.— Bendire, Life Hist. 

 N. Am. Birds (ii), 1895, 172, part, pi. 3, figs. 7, 8, 9, 10.— Grinnell (,T.), Pub. 

 2, Pasadena Ac. Sci., 1898, 27 (Los Angeles Co., California, breeding). — 

 Mailliard, Condor, iii, 1901, 123 (San Benito Co., California, breeding). — 

 Bailey (Florence M.), Handb. Birds W. U. S., 1902, 228, part.— Montgom- 

 ery, Auk, xxii, 1905, 14 (Montgomery Co., Texas). — ^Miller (W. De W.), 

 Bull. Am. Mus. N. H., xxii, 1906, 166 (Rancho Baillon, n. w. Durango, May; 

 crit.). — Sharp, Condor, ix, 1907, 88 (San Diego Co., California, breeding). — 

 Goldman, Condor, x, 1908, 204 (mouth of Kem R. Canyon, California, breed- 

 ing).^ — Cooke, Condor, xiv, 1912, 148 (Hoehne, near Trinidad, Colorado, 

 June 11, 1908).— Taylor (W. P.), Condor, xiv, 1912, 222, in text (Winslow, 

 Glen Co., California, breeding). 



[Chordeiles acutipennis] subsp. /?. Chordeiles texensis Hartert, Cat. Birds Brit. 

 Mus., xvi, 1892, 616, part. 



Ch[ordeiles] acutipennis texensis Haxieut, Tierreich, Podarg., Oaprim.. Macropt., 

 1897, 20, part. 



Chordediles acutipennis texensis Coues, Check List, 2d ed., 1882, no. 402, part. — • 

 Brewster, Bull. Nutt. Om. Club, viii, 1883, 21 (SantajRita Mts., Tucson, 

 and Camp Lowell, Arizona). 



C[hordediles] acutipennis texensis Coubs, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 1884, 454, part. 



Chordiles acutipennis texensis Nehrling, Bull. Nutt. Om. Club, vii, 1882, 170 

 (Harris, Montgomery, Galveston, and Ford counties, s. e. Texas; habits). 



Caprimulgus texensis Koenig-Warthausen, Joum. fiir Cm., xvi, 1868, 376, part. 



Family NYCTIBIID^. 



THE POTOOS.i 



=Nyctibiinx Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iii, 1860, 94.— Sclater, Cat. Am. 

 Birds, 1862, 278.— Stejneger, Stand. Nat. Hist., iv, 1885, 387, in text.— 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1894, 398. — Shakpe, Hand- 

 list, ii, 1900, 78. 



=Nyctibiidse Shakpe, Rev. Classif. Birds, 1891, 81. 



'^Steatorniihinx Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 57 (includes Steatomithes and 

 Podargi). 



yPodargidx Gadow, in Bronn's Thier-Reich, Vog., ii, 1891, 242, 300 (includes 

 Podargi). 



o The choice of a vernacular name for the birds of this family seems to be between 

 the Jamaican vernacular Potoo and the Paraguayan (Indian) name Ibijau (pronounced 

 Ebehdw), neither of which, unfortunately, is particularly euphonious. 



