BIEDS OF NORTH AND MIDDLE AMERICA. 



591 



299(291); tail, 210-216 (212.3); exposed culmen, 25-28 (26.3); tar- 

 sus, 13.5-14 (13.7); middle toe, 23-23.5 (23.3).° 



Island of Jamaica (near Spanishtown ; Priestmans River; Mo- 

 neague; Westmoreland; Port Henderson). Cuba? 



[Caprimulgits] jamaicensis Gmelin, Syst.Nat., i, pt. 2, 1789, 102!) (Jamaica; based 

 on Guirea-querea Ray, Av., 180; Buffon, Hist. Nat. Ois., vi, 536; Wood-Oide 

 Sloane, Voy. Jam., ii, 295; Mountain Owl Brown, Jam., 47.'3; Jamaica Goat- 

 sucker Latham, Synop., ii, pt. 2, 591). — Latham, Index Orn., ii, 1790, 584 

 (Jamaica). 



Caprimulgus jamaicensis Stephens, Shaw's Gen. ZooL, x. 1817, 144. — Vieillot, 

 Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., x, 1817, 238 (Jamaica).— Denny, Proc. Zool. Soc. 

 Lond., 1847, 38 (Jamaica). 



Nyctibius jamaicensis Gosse, Birds Jam., 1847, 41; Illustr. Birds Jam., 1849, pL 

 6. — (?)Cabanis, Journ. fur Orn.. 1856, 6 (Cuba). — Gundlach, Journ. fur 

 Ortt., 1861, 412 (Cuba; crit.).— Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud., 1861, 77 

 (Jamaica); 1866, 129, part (monogr.; Jamaica); Cat. Am. Birds, 1862, 278 

 (Jamaica); Journ. fiir Orn., 1867, 257 (translation); Revised List Birds Jam., 

 1910, 10. — Albrecht, Journ. fiir Orn., 1862, 199 (Jamaica). — AIarch, Proc. 

 Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1863, 286 (Jamaica).— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 338; Birds 

 West Ind., 1889, 133; Cat. West. Ind. Birds, 1892, 105, 130.— Scott, Auk, 

 ix, 1892, 275 (Jamaica; habits). — Hartert, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 

 625, part (Jamaica). — Field, Auk, xi, 1894, 125 (Port Henderson, Jamaica). — 

 Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1894, 399, part (.Jamaica). 



« Three specimens. 



