BIRDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 589 



[Caprimulgus]grandisGuEhiN, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 1029 (Cayenne; based on 

 Caprimulgus brasiliensis major nxvius Brisson, Orn., ii, 485; Grand Ibijau 

 Buffon, Hist, Nat. Ois., vi, 541; Grand Crapaud-volant de Cayenne Dauben- 

 ton, PI. Enl., pi. 325; Grand Goatsucl:erl,&{h.am, Synop., ii, pt. 2, 590; etc.).— 

 Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 383 (Cayenne). 



C[aprimulgus] grandis Maximilian, Beitr. Naturg. Bras., i, 1830, 295 (Rio Bel- 

 monte, Brazil). 



Caprimulgus grandis Temminck, Cat. Syst., 1807, 137.— Jardine and Selby, 

 Illustr. Orn., 1829(?), pi. 89.— Koenig-Warthausen, Journ. fiir Orn., 1868* 

 372 (descr. eggs). 



Nyctibius grandis YiEiLLOT, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xvi, 1825, 7.— Lafresnaye, 

 Mag. de Zool., 1837, classe ii, not. 83, pi. 83, fig. 2a (p. 23) (monogr.).— Gray, 

 Gen. Birds, i, 1849, pi. 16.— Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1851, 184 

 (Surinam; Cayenne); Cat. Caprim. Mus. Phila. Ac, 1851, (5).— Burmeister, 

 Journ. fiir Orn., 1853, 169 (Brazil; descr. egg); Syst. Ueb. Th. Bras., ii, 1856, 

 374.— Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1862, 290 (Lion Hill, Panama).— 

 ScLATER, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866, 128, 145 (monogr.); Journ. fur Orn., 

 1867, 256.— ScLATER and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866, 193 (Ucayali, 

 6. Peru); 1873, 290 (upper Ucayali, e. Peru); 1875, 237 (San Cristobal, Vene- 

 zuela). — Pelzeln, Orn. Bras., i. Abth., 1868, 10.— Euler, Journ. fiir Orn., 

 1869, 251 (Brazil; habits; nesting).— Reinhardt, Ved. Med. Nat. Forh., 1870, 

 115 (Brazil).— Taczanowski, Orn. du Perou, i, 1884, 204.— Salvin, Ibis, 

 1885, 437 (Camacusa, Brit. Guiana). — Hartert, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 

 1892, 628 (San Cristobal, Venezuela; Camacusa, Brit. Guiana; Cayenne; 

 Sarayacu, e. Ecuador; upper Ucayali, e. Peru). — Salvin and Godman, Biol.- 

 Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1894, 400 (Lion Hill, Panama; etc.). — Goeldi, Ibis, 

 1897, 161 (Amapa, n. e. Brazil). — Salvadori and Festa, Boll. Mus. Zool., 

 etc., Torino, xiv, 1899, no. 339, 8 (Punta de Sabana, Panama). — Ihering, 

 Rev. Mus. Paulista, iii, 1899, 277 (Sao Paulo, s. Brazil); iv, 1900, 76 (descr. 

 eggs), 160 (Cantagallo and Novo Fribourgo, s. Brazil). — Hellmayr, Novit. 

 Zool., xiv, 1907, 33 (Obidos, Brazil; crit.), 78 (Teff^, Brazil; crit.).— Ber- 

 LEPSCH, Journ. fiir Orn., xv, 1908, 270 (Cayenne). 



[Nyctibius] grandis Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 58. — Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 

 55, no. 605. — Pelzeln, Orn. Bras., iv. Abth., 1870, 400. — Sclater and Sal- 

 vin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 95.— Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 79. 



N[yctibius] grandis Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iii, 1860, 94 (Surinam; 

 Brazil). — Hartert, Tierreich, Podarg., Caprim., Macropt., 1897, 16. 



NYCTIBIUS GRISEUS JAMAICENSIS (Gmelin). 



JAMAICAN POTOO. 



Adult male. — Pileum broadly streaked or striped with black and 

 white, or white and pale brownish buffy, the black predominating; 

 hindneck and back brownish gray to light buffy brown, faintly ver- 

 miculated with darker and narrowly streaked with black; scapular 

 region in part similar in coloration to back, but the anterior portion 

 irregularly spotted or blotched with black; lower back and rump 

 dull sooty black or slate-blackish, uniform anteriorly (sometimes 

 throughout) but usually more or less spotted posteriorly with pale 

 buffy brown or brownish gray; upper tail-coverts dusky \vith small 

 spots of pale brownish gray or buffy brownish; anterior portion of 



