Early in the morning of 14 November 1970 I discovered a male Whip-poor-will Caprimulgus vociferus in one of the mist nets in my yard on Pt. Loma, San Diego, California. At this time the bird was examined in detail by Virginia P. Coughran, Pierre Devillers, G. Shumway Suffel, and myself; it was measured, described, and photographed (color slide deposited in the San Diego Natural History Museum). We felt the bird might be of the eastern race, C.v. vociferus. To confirm this, the bird was compared directly with material in the San Diego Natural History Museum (SDNHM) by Joseph R. Jehl, Jr. It was then banded and released.