(WHIP-POOR-WILL.)
+Chordeiles virginianus+, _Scl. et Salv. Nomencl._ p. 96; _Barrows,
Auk_, 1884, p. 24 (Entrerios); _Berlepsch, J. f. O._ 1887, p. 120
(Paraguay).
_Description._--Above black, varied and mottled with brown; wings
black, with a broad white bar across the bases of the five outer
primaries; tail black, with brown cross bands and a broad white
subapical bar: beneath white, with dense blackish cross bands;
breast blacker; broad throat-band white; bill black; feet pale
brown: whole length 8·5 inches, wing 7·8, tail 4·0. _Female_
similar, but throat-band tawny and no white band on the tail.
_Hab._ North and South America.
The well-known "Whip-poor-Will" of the U. S. appears to extend its
winter-migration into Northern Argentina. Mr. Barrows has recorded the
capture of two specimens of this species at Concepcion in Entrerios in
January 1880 and December of the same year. Its occurrence in Paraguay
is also known to us, and Natterer obtained examples of it in S.E.
Brazil.