Vol. XV, pp. 159-160 June 25, 1902 



PROCEEDINGS 



OF THE 



BIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW SUBSPECIES OF STENOP- 

 SIS CAYENNEN'SIS FROM CURAQAO.* 



BY CHARLES W. RICHMOND. 



The Goatsucker described below was presented to the U. S. 

 National Museum by Capt. Wirt Robinson, U. S. A., who 

 obtained it on the Island of Curagao, in June, 1900. 



Birds of the genus Stenopsis have been previously reported 

 from Curagao by Messrs. Petersf and IIartert,J but in each case 

 the collector obtained only females, which Hartert was unable 

 to separate from S. cayennensis. Capt. Robinson's specimen is 

 a male, in fresh plumage, and may be described as follows: 



Stenopsis cayennensis insularis new subspecies. 



7'2/pe.— Adult male, No. 175,245, U. S. National Museum, Curasao, 

 June 30, 1900, Capt. Wirt Robinson, U. S. A. (collector's No. 1446). 

 Upper parts, pale drab gray, somewhat lighter on head, all of the 

 feathers finely vermiculated with buff, brown, or black; feathers of 

 median part of head with broad black centers, edged with pale cinna- 

 mon; scapulars, black, the inner webs mottled with rufous, the outer 



*Published by permission of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institu- 

 tion. 



f.Tourn. fiir Orn., 1892, 87. 

 tibis, 1893, 319. 



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