CoRV on the Birds of the West Indies. j ^ r 



roundish rings. On the breast, clay-coloured feathers with black 

 shafts and black spots. Sides, belly, and vent, white with black 

 shafts. A line of black feathers down the middle of the back; rumd 

 ashy, with narrow black shafts. On shoulders a mixture of ash 

 and clay-colour, with black shafts. Plumage very loose. Weight, 

 3 02., 7 sc." (GossE, from Robinson's MSS., Bds. Jam. pp. 49, 

 50. 1847-) 

 Habitat. Jamaica. 



This is a very doubtful species, not g-enerally recognized by 

 authors. Probably the same as N. jamaicensis. 



Genus Chordeiles Swains. 

 Chordeiles Swainson, Fauna Bor. Amer. II, p. 496 (1831). 



Chordeiles minor Cab. 



Chordeiles minor Cab. J. f. O. 1S56, p. 5.— Sol. Cat. Am. Bds, p. 279 

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

 Sci. Phila. 1863, p. 286.— Scl. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 96 

 (1873)-— GuNDL. J. f. O. 1874, p. 117; ib. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 

 VII, p. 202 (1878).— A. & E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 109 

 (1881).— Cory, Bds. Bahama I. p. 106 (1880) ; ib. Bds. Haiti & San 

 Domingo, p. 85 (1885) ; ib. List Bds. W. I. p. 16 (1S85). 



Chordeiles gundlachii 'L.KWVL. Ann. Lye. N. Y. VI, p. 165 (1856). 



Chordeiles popetue Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. loS (1859). 

 — GuNDL. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 282 (1S65) ; ib. J. f. O. 

 1874, p. 117. 



Chordeiles gundlachi Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 306 (1S60). 



Chordeiles fopetue var. minor Bd. Bwr. & Ridgw. Hist. N. Am. Bds. II, 

 p. 400 (1874). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Above dark brown, variegated with white and tawny ; 

 underparts tawny, banded with brown; throat tawny, becoming 

 whitish on the breast; a white line from sides of throat to chin ; 

 first two primaries with a spot on the inner web, and the second and 

 third with a band of white ; edge of carpus white. 



The female differs from the male by having the sides of the throat 

 rufous instead of white. 



Length, 8.25; wing, 7; tail, 4; tarsus, .50; bill, .20. 



Habitat. Antilles. 



Chordeiles virginianus (Briss.). 



Caprimulgus virginianus Brisson, Orn. p. 477 (1760). — Gmel. Syst. 

 Nat. I, ii, 102S (178S). 



