508 



BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



201.5-215 (209); tail, 130-144 (136.4); exposed culmen, 9-13.5 

 (11.7); tarsus, 17-19 (17.9); middle toe, 17.5-19.5 (17.7).« 



Young female. — Similar to the adult female in "pattern" and col- 

 oration of tail, pribiaries, and primary coverts, but otherwise different; 

 scapulars and middle wing-coverts ochraceous-buff , irregularly barred 

 with black; pileum more grayish, with small spots, instead of streaks, 

 of black; under parts barred with black on a light brownish buffy 

 ground, without vermiculations, mottling, or spots, and band across 

 lower throat indistinct or obsolete. 



Lower Austral or Austroriparian Zone of eastern United States; 

 breeding from southern Virginia (Northampton, Surry, James, and 

 Warwick counties), southern Ohio( ?), southwestern Indiana, southern 

 Illinois, southern Missouri (Shannon and Carter counties), and south- 

 eastern Kansas (Chautauqua County) southward to the Gulf States 

 (Florida to Texas) ; west to central Texas (Bexar, Falls, Kerr, Kin- 

 ney, and Milam coimties) ; m winter south to Bahamas (Andros and 

 Great Inagua Islands), Cuba (Remedios; San Pablo; Isle of Pines), 

 Jamaica, Haiti, Porto Rico, Guatemala (Dueiias), Nicaragua (San 

 Juan del Sur), Costa Rica (Las Cruccs de Candelaria; Guadalupe; 

 near San Jose ; Rio Sicsola) , Panama (Volcan de Chiriqui and Boquete, 

 Chiriqui), and Colombia (Medellin, Antioquia). Occasional or casual 

 northward to Maryland, Massachusetts (Revere, Oct., 1884), Nova 

 Scotia (Pictou), Ontario (Point Pelee, May 19 and 21, 1896), West 

 Virginia (Greenbrier Co., April 23, 1897), and south-central Kansas 

 (Wichita, June 12, 1898). 



[Caprimulg'us] carolinensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 2, 1789, 1028 (based on Le 

 Tette-chlvre de la Caroline Brisson, Orn., ii, 475). — Latham, Index Orn., ii, 

 1790, 584.— Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 58, no. 560.— Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 

 1900, 85. 



a Sixteen specimens. 



Locality. 



Middle 



toe. 



il.VLES. 



Two adult males from South Carolina and Georgia.. . 



Five adult males from Florida 



Four adult males from Texas 



One adult male from Costa Rica (November) 



FEMALES. 



Three adult females from South Carolina and Georgia 



Three adult females from Florida 



Five adult females from Texas 



One adult female from Mississippi 



One adult female from Nicaragua (January) 



One adult female from Cuba 



One adult female from Jamaica (March) 



One adult female from Indian Territory 



17.5 

 18.8 

 18.7 

 17 



18 



18.3 



18.2 



18 



18.5 



19. S 



19 



18 



