Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. j ^q 



brown and rufous ; the under surface being dull rufous, narrowly 

 banded with brown; wings and tail brown, marked with rufous. 

 Length (^skin), S. 75 ; wing, 5.50; tail, 4.50; tarsus, 60. 



It is claimed that this species occurs in the Lesser Antilles. A 

 specimen in my collection is labelled ''Trinidad," and Alessrs. 

 Sclater and Salvin give it from Martinique. 



Genus Siphonorhis Scl. 

 Siphonorhis Sclater, P. Z. S. 1861, p. 77. 



Siphonorhis americanus (Linn.). 



'■ Caprimulgiis jam-.iicensis Briss. Av. II, p. 4S0." 



Caprimulgus americanus Linn. Svst. Nat. I, p. 346 (1766). 



Chordeiles america?ius Bp. Consp. I, p. 63 (iSiJo). 



Siphonorhis americanus ScL. P. Z. S. 1S61, p. 77; ib. Cat. Am. Bds. p. 



282 (1862).— Albrecht, J. f. O. 1862, p. 199.— March, Pr. Acad. 



Nat. Sci. Phila. 1S63, p. 286.— Gray. Handl. Bds. I, p. 60 (1869).— 



ScL. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 97 (1S73). — A. & E. Newton, 



Handb. Jamaica, p. 109 (1881). 

 Siphonorhis americana Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 16 (1885). 



Sp. Char. Male: — General plumage above rufous brown, mottled and 

 streaked with gray, dull white, bright rufous, and dark brown ; a 

 patch of dull white on the throat; breast rufous, delicately dotted 

 and lined with brown ; feathers of the underparts broadly tipped 

 with dull white; tail dull rufous, streaked and marked with brown, 

 showing a sub-terminal band of brown, the feathers tipped with 

 white; primaries dark brown, broadly dotted with rufous on the 

 outer webs, showing various markings of rufous on the inner webs. 

 Length (skin), 9; wing, 5; tail, 4.75; tarsus, .90. 

 Habitat. Jamaica. 



Family CYPSELID^. 



Genus Cypselus Illig. 



C)'/5(r/«s Illigkr, Prodr. Syst. Mamm. et Avium, p. 229 (iSii). 



Cypselus phcenicobius (Gosse). 



T.ichornis phoenicobia GossE, Bds. Jam. p. 58 (1847). — Gundl. J. f. O. 

 1S56, p. 5.— Albrecht, J. f O. 1862, p. 194.— March, Pr. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci. Phila. 1S63, p. 287.— A. & E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, 

 p. 108 (i88i). 



