594 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



Nyctibius jamaicensis Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866, 129, part (monogr.). — 

 ScLATERand Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1879, 531 (Concordia, Antioquia, 

 Colombia). — Hartert, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 625, part (Concordia, 

 Colombia). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1894, 399, 

 part (Lion Hill, Panama; Colombia). 



[Nyctibius] jamaicensis Sclater and Salvin, Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 95, part. — 

 Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 79, part. 



N[yctibius] jamaicensis (typicus) Hartert, Tierreicb, Podarg., Caprim., Macropt., 

 1897, IG, part. 



Nyctibius griseus panamensis Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxv, May 4, 1912, 

 91 (Nata, Code, Panama; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



Suborder STRIGES.a 



OWLS. 



=Nocturni Illiger, Prodromus Orn., 1811, 232. 



= Nocturni YiEiLLOT, Analyse, 1816, 25. 



=jEgolii ViEiLLOT, Analyse, 1816, 25. 



=Striges Wagler, Naturl. Syst. AmpMb., etc., 1830, 80. — Newton, Encyc . 



Brit., 9th ed., xviii, 1885, 47.— Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1874, 1; 



Review Rec. At. Classif. Birds, 1891, 79. — American Ornitholo.gists' 



Union, Check List, 1886, 197 (and of later editions). — Fuerbringer, Unters. 



Morph. Syst. Vog., ii, 1888, 1567.— Beddard, Struct, and Classif. Birds, 1898, 



244.— Gadow, Classif. Vertebr., 1898, 36.— Knowlton, Birds of the World, 



1909, 60. 

 =Accipitrinae nocturnae Nitzsch, Syst. Pterylogr., 1840, 95. 

 =Accipitres nocturni Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, pp. vi, 38. 

 =Nocturni Fitzinger, Sitz, K. Acad. Wiss. Wien (Mat.-Nat. Clause), xxi, heft 



2, 1856, 290. 

 —Strigidss Bonaparte, Prodr. Syst. Orn., 1840, 3; Consp. Gen. Av., i, 1850, 



36. — Kaup, in Jardine's Contr. Orn., 1851, 119. — Lilljeborg, Proc. Zool. 



Soc. Lond., 1866, 15.— Gray,, Hand-list, i, 1869, pp. vi, 38. 

 =Strixidse D'Orbigny, Voy. Am. M^rid., iv, pt. 3, 1839, 123'. 

 =Strigomorphae Carus, Handb. Zool., Wirbelth., i, 1868, 75, 303. 

 —Nyctharpages Sundevall, Met. Nat. Av. Disp. Tent., 1872, 103. 

 =Nycliharpages Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 50, pt. v, 1911, 298. 

 =8trigoidex Stejneger, Sci. Rec, ii. May 15, 1884, 155. 

 =Strigiformes Sharpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 280. 



—Podargoharpages Fuerbringer, Unters. Morph. Syst. Vog., ii, 1888, 1567. 

 =Strigidae (Nyctihar pages) Fuerbringer, Unters. Morph. Sys. Vog., li, 1888, 



1306. 



Desmognathous or schizsognathous Coraciiformes with feet desmo- 

 pelmous, the flexor tendons of type I; coracoids connected; hypo- 

 tarsus simple; myological formula A; two carotid arteries; syrinx 

 bronchial; aftershaft absent or (in Tytonidss) redimentary; plum- 

 age soft (caprimulgine) ; primaries 11, and young ptUopaedic. 



Nasals holorhinal; maxiQo-palatines thick and spongy, encroaching 

 on the intervening valley ; basipterygoid processes and vomer present ; 

 cranial walls widely separated by intervening spongy diploe ; meta- 

 sternum 2-4-notched; spina externa sterni present, spuia interna 



a In the Key to the Suborders of Coraciiformes, on p. 298 of Part V of this work, 

 the Suborder name Nyctiharpages is used instead of Striges. 



