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Uropsalis
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Uropsalis is a genus of South American nightjars in the nightjar family Caprimulgidae.
==Taxonomy== The genus Uropsalis was introduced in 1915 by the American ornithologist Waldron DeWitt Miller with Hydropsalis lyra Bonaparte, 1850, the lyre-tailed nightjar, as the type species. The genus name combines the Ancient Greek ουρα/oura meaning "tail" and ψαλις/psalis, ψαλιδος/psalidos meaning "pair of scissors" or "shears".
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