DESCRIPTION OK A NEW SPECIES OK WHIPPOORWILL KROM 



COSTA RICA. 



I'.Y 



K. KiiM'.wAV, 

 Curator of the Department of Birds. 



Antrostomus rufoinaciilatus, sp. ikiv. 



Sr. Char: rrimuries black, imiform on iimcr webs, spotted witli rusty 

 on outer webs; tail blaeU, banded with li^lit rusty, tin- three outer 

 feathers (in male) broadly tipped across both webs with white, IMuin- 

 a«:;e in <;eneral bhicU, spotted with li^ht rusty, the spots usually of 

 transverse form, ami on the i)ost«'rior under parts broader and paler; 

 on tile belly a few larj;er spots of butl'y whitish. No white on throat. 

 Lenjith (skin), about 8.75; winj;-, •»; tail, l.OO. 

 IIAHITAT: Costa Kica (Volcan de Irazn). 



Adult male (No. 120102,* U. S. National Museum, Volcan de Irazn, 

 Costa Hica, Ai)ril 11. 1S!H, Anastasio Alfaro) : (Jeneral color black, but 

 this much variegated by numerous rather small spots, mostly tians- 

 verst', of li.uht rusty or einnumon-rufous : the to[>of the head, however, 

 with several broad irre;,MdaiIy seiiate(l stripes t)f unilorm blacic ; four 

 middle tail leathers with about ten broail /\-shai)ed bars of einnamon- 

 fufous, avera<;injj narrower than the black interspaces, and them.selve.s 

 : more (»r less broken by irregular small blotches of black; three outer- 

 I most tail-feathers on ea(di side, with the cinnamon-rufous bars much nar- 

 t rower, less broken, directly transverse, and becoming obsolete towards 

 theends of the feathers, which for the space of 0.(».~) (on the outermost) 

 to 0.00 (on the third) are sillcy white entirely ai-ross both webs, includ- 

 ing the shatt ; the terminal margin of the white patch, however, tinged 

 1 with ochra(;eous. Inner webs of all the remiges (except innermost 

 secondaries) entirely black; outer wel)s marked with sm;ill spots of 

 cinnann)n rufous, on se(;omlaries along the margin oidy. Aiiicrioi- li;ilf 

 of lower part.s black, each R'ather marked with a terminal pair ol small 

 spots of pale cinnamon-brown or russet; these, across lower part of 

 throat larger, coalesced into a single V-'^haped bar on eacdi feather, but 

 not forming a distinct throat patch ; middle ot breast with thn-e trans- 

 versely ])aiidurate spots of dull butfy whitish, ciuisiderably larger ihan 

 the other markings. A band or beltof similnr large light colored spots 



• No. .''vIOI, Musro Nncion.ll d.' t'<»t:i K'i. ;i. 

 rroropdiim.H Natioiml MiiHoun., Vol. XIV. No. 8C7. 



Proc. N. M.Ol M) 46.'^ 



