Cory 07i the Birds of the West Indies. ^ XX 



Pachyrhynchus atterrimus Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1846, p. 320. 

 Pachyrhaynphus nigrescetts Cab. Orn. Not. I, p. 241. — Bp. Consp. I, p 



iSo (1850). 

 Pachyrhamphus niger ScL. P. Z. S. 1857, p. 72. 

 Platypsaris nigra ScL. P. Z. S. i86i, p. 77.— Albrecht, J. f. O. 1862, p. 



207. 

 Hadrostomus niger Cab. & Heine. Mus. Hein. II, p. 85 (1859). — ScL. 



Cat.Am. Bds. p. 239 (1862).— March, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 



p. 290.— ScL. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 56 (1S73).— A. & E. 



Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 108 (1881 ).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 



16 (1SS5). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Top of the head black, shading into dark brown, with 

 a blackish gloss on the back; throat, breast and belly smoke-color; 

 a faint tinge of rufous on the flanks ; wings and tail dark brown, 

 almost black; tertials and some of the wing-coverts heavily marked 

 with white, forming a partially concealed white patch at the junc- 

 tion of the wing and back. 



Female: — Top of the head dark brown ; a malar stripe of light 

 brown ; throat brownish white, rest of underparts dull white; cris- 

 sum brownish olive ; back and rump dark slate-color; wings and 

 tail brown, pale rufous on the inner webs of the primaries; outer 

 webs of secondaries, and some of the inner primaries, showing dull 

 rufous brown. 

 Length (skin), 7.20; wing, 4; tail, 3.50; tarsus, .85; bill, .55. 

 Habitat. Jamaica. 



Family CAPRIMULGID^. 



Genus Nyctibius Vieill. 

 Nyctibius Vieillot, Analyse, p. 38 (1806). 



Nyctibius jamaicensis (Gmel.). 



Caprimulgus j'amaicensis G'M^l^. Sj'st. Nat. I, p. 1029(1788). — Denxy, P. 



z. s. 1847, p- 38- 



Nyctibius jamaice7tsis GossE, Bds. Jam. p. 41 (1S47). — ^p- Consp. I, p. 

 58(1850).— ScL. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 11 -.ib. Cat. Am. Bds. p. 278 (1862). 

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

 Phila. 1863, p. 2S6.— Gray, Handl. Bds. I, p. 56 (1869).— Scl. & 

 Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 95 (1S73). — A. & E. Newton, Handb. 

 Jamaica, p. 108 (18S1).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 16 (1885). 



Sp. Char. Male: — General plumage grayish, heavily marked, streaked, 

 and blotched with brown and white ; some of the feathers sparsely 



