TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS 159 



Order CAPRIMULGIFORMES: Oil-birds, Goatsuckers 



Family PODARGIDAE: Frogmouths 



Genus BATRACHOSTOMUS Gould 



Batrachostomus menagei Bourns and Worcester 



Occas. Pap. Minnesota Acad. Nat. Sci. 1: 11, December 8, 1894. 

 =Batrachostomus septimus menagei Bourns and Worcester. See Peters, 



Checklist of birds of the world 4: 178, 1940. 

 316140. Adult male. "Calantas," Panay Island, Philippine Islands. 

 November 17, 1890. Collected by Dean C. Worcester and Frank S. 

 Bourns. Received from the Minneapolis Public Library, which ac- 

 quired it from the Minnesota Academy of Natural Sciences, where it 

 was No. 1040 of the Menage Collection. 



Family NYCTIBIIDAE: Potoos 



Genus NYCTIBIUS Vieillot 



Nyctibius jamaicensis niexicaiius Nelson 



Auk 17 (3) : 260, July 1900. 

 =Nyctibius griseus mexicanus Nelson. See Peters, Checklist of birds of 



the world 4: 180, 1940. 

 158535. Adult male. Metlaltoyuca, State of Puebla, Mexico. January 

 26, 1898. Collected by Edward A. Goldman. Original number 5047. 

 Received from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. 

 NycSibius griseus costaricensis Ridgway 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 25: 91, May 4, 1912. 

 85550. Adult female. Sarchi de Alajuela (Sarchi de Grecia), Province 

 of Alajuela, Costa Rica. August 6, 1881. Collected by Jose Castulo 

 Zeledon. 

 Nyctibius griseus panamensis Ridgway 



Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington 25: 91, May 4, 1912. 

 154252. Adult male. Nata, Province of Code, Panama. January 24, 

 1889. Collected by H. T. Heyde and Ernesto Lux. Original number 

 19. 

 Nyctibius griseus abbotli Richmond 



Smithsonian Misc. Coll. 68 (7) : 1, July 12, 1917. 

 250374. Adult male. Grand Port-a-Piment, on tlie southern coast of the 

 northwestern peninsula of Haiti, Hispaniola. March 9, 1917. Col- 

 lected by William L. Abbott. 



