J -25 Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. 



Choydeiles virg-i'nianus GossK. Bds. Jam. p. 33 (1847). — Lemb. Aves Cuba, 

 p. 51 (1850) (?).— SuNDEV. Oefv. K. Vet. Akad. For. 1869, p. 600 (.?), 

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



Chordeiles fopctue var. fopetue Bd. Bw^-i. & Ridgw. Hist. N. Am. Bds. II. 



p. 401 (1874) (Greater Antilles). 



I have never seen a specimen of C. virginianus from the West 

 Indies ; several authors have recorded it, but it is possible that 

 they may have mistaken C. mmor for this species.* 



Genus Antrostomus Gould. 

 Antrostomus "Gould, Icones Avium, 183S." 



Antrostomus rufus (Bodd.). 



Caprimulgus rufus "Bodd. et Gmel. ex PI. Enl. p. 735." 



Antrostotfius rufus Cassin, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. V, p. 183. — 



ScL. P. Z. S., 1866, p. 136.— Gray, Handl. Bds. I, p. 59 (1869).— 



ScL. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 96 (1S73). — Cory, List Bds. 



W. I. p. 16 (18S5). 

 Antrostotnus rutilus Burm. Sjst. Ueb. II, p. 385. — Allen, Bull. Nutt. 



Orn. Club, V, p. 169 (1880). 



Sp. Char. — Upper surface mottled and varied with brown and black ; the 

 terminal portions of the feathers o\\ ths hsad with broad patches of 

 black in the centre of the feathers ; underparts darkening on the 

 breast, but becoming heavily tinged with rufous on the abdomen and 

 crissum ; primaries broadly blotclied with light rufous, heaviest on 

 the outer webs ; a large blotch of white on the terminal portion of 

 the inner web of the outer tail-feather, showing upon both webs of 

 the second and third feathers ; central tail-feathers dark brown, 

 heavily mottled with rufous ; feet black. In general appearance the 

 bird is smaller and much darker than A. carolinensis. 

 Length, 10.50; wing, 7.50; tail, 5; tarsus, .60. 

 Recorded from Santa Lucia, W. I. 



Antrostomus carolinensis (Gmel.). 



Caprimulgus carolinensis Gmel. Syst. Nat. I, p. 1028 (1788). — D'Orb. in 

 La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 96 (1840). 



Antrostotnus carolinensis Gundl. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 2S3 

 (1865) ; ib. J. f. O. 1874. p. 120 (Cuba).— ScL. P. Z. S. 1S66, p. 136 

 (Jamaica).— Gundl. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, p. 201 (1878) 

 (Porto Rico). — A. & E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 109 (1881). — 



* Dr. Gundlach writes me C. virginiamts is not uncommon in Cuha in winter. 



