Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. j -», 



Cory, Bds. Bahama I. p. 104 (1S80) ; ib. Bull. Nutt. Orn. Club. VI, 

 p. 153 (1881) (Haiti); ib. List Bds. W. I. p. 16 (1SS5). 

 Audrostomus carolinensis Cory, Bds. Haiti & San Domingo, p. 84 (18S5). 



Recorded from Cuba, Porto Rico, Jamaica, Haiti, San 

 Domingo, and Bahamas. 



Antrostomus cubanensis Lawr. 



Caprimulgus vociferus D'Orb. in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 98 



(1840). — Lemb. Aves Cuba, p. 130 (1850). 

 Antrostomus vociferus Gundl. J. f. O. 1856, p. 6. — Brewer, Pr. Bost. 



Soc. Nat. Hist. VH, p. 306 (i860).— Sol. & Salv. Nom. Avium 



Neotr. p. 96 (1S73). 

 Antrostomus cubanensis Lawr. Ann. Ljc. Nat. Hist. N. Y. 1862, p. 260. 



—Gundl. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 283 (1865); ib.]. f. O. 



1874, p. 120.— Gray, Handl. Bds. I, p. 59 (1869).— Cory, List Bds. 



W. L p. 16 (1S85). 

 Antrostomus macromystax var. cubanensis Bd. Bwr. & Ridgw. Hist. N. 



Am. Bds. IL p. 409 (1874). 



'■'■Adult male: — Upper plumage dark ash, minutely mottled with 

 dull rufous and grey, the feathers conspicuously marked with longi- 

 tudinal stripes of black in their centres; a line extends from the 

 bill over the eye and along the crown of greyish white, tinged with 

 pale rufous and intermixed with black; the tertiaries ochraceous- 

 white, beautifully variegated with black, and having near the 

 end of each feather an irregular patch of velvety black; wing- 

 coverts the same color as the back, some of them marked near 

 their ends with ochraceous spots ; primaries dark reddish-brown 

 sprinkled with dull rufous and grey at their ends, and having 

 bright rufous spots arranged regularly on their outer webs, there 

 are spots also on their inner webs, more obscure in color and as- 

 suming a mottled form ; secondaries dark brown, mottled with grey 

 on the outer webs, and tinged with rufous on the inner; tail very 

 full, of a fine deep brown, the two central tail-feathers closely 

 banded with curving bars of mottled grey and pale rufous, the next 

 feather on each side, with the bars dull rufous, and rather narrowly 

 tipped with ochraceous-white, less in extent on the inner Aveb, the 

 three outer feathers are irregularly barred with dull rufous mottling 

 for their basal half, their ends for about an inch creamv-white, 

 with ochraceous edges; throat dark brown, minutely freckled with 

 rufous, the neck immediately below this color crossed with a band 

 of pale rufous; a line of pale rufous-white or ochraceous spots ex- 

 tend along below the under mandible, and down the side of the 

 neck, a few spots of the same in a line below the eye ; on the side 

 of the neck enclosed by these spots and the band across the throat, 



