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Young female {full ^row?i) ."— Pileum pale buff and buffy grayish 

 white suffused with pale tawny-ochraceous, each feather with a small 

 central or subterminal spot (mostly of broadly rhomboid or sub- 

 cordate form) of black; rump and upper tail-coverts ochraceous-buff 

 to pale russet or tawny, barred, more or less distinctly, with blackish; 

 wing-coverts (in part) pale grayish buffy with sparse, fine vermicula- 

 tions of dusky and kregular mesial streaks of black; under parts pos- 

 terior to breast buff or light ochraceous-buff, narrowly and rather 

 indistinctly barred with dusky; rest of the plumage (belonging to 

 new dress) as in adult female. 



Panama (Volcan de Chiriqui; near Panama City) and southward 

 thi'ough Colombia (San Sebastian and Montajira, Santa ]\Iarta), Vene- 

 zuela (San Cristobal; Caracas; San Julian; Escorial, 3,000 feet), 

 Cayenne, and Brazil (Pernambuco; Para; Bahia; Rio de Janeiro; 

 Rio Araguaya; Sao Paulo; Novo Fribourgo) to northern Argentina 

 (Ocampo).^ 



Caprimulgiis rufus Boddaert, Tabl. PI. Enl., 1783, 46 (based on Crapaud- Volant 

 ou Tette-Chevre de Cayenne Daubenton, PI. Enl., pi. 735.) — Vieillot, Nouv. 

 Diet. d'Hist. Nat., x, 1817, 244, part; Enc. M^th., 1823, 541.— Hartert, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 566, part (Volcan de Chiriqui, Panama; San 

 Cristobal and Caracas, Venezuela; Pard,, Pernambuco, Bahia, and Rio de 

 Janeiro, Brazil). — Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1894, 

 385. — Ihering, Rev. Mus. Paulista, iii, 1899, 269 (Sao Paulo, s. Brazil); iv, 

 1900, 160 (Novo Fribourgo, s. Brazil), 255 (descr. eggs). — Hellmayr, Novit. 

 Zool., XV, 1908, 79 (Rio Araguaya, Brazil; crit.). — Berlepsch, Novit. Zool., 

 XV, 1908, 269 (Cayenne).— Hartert and Venturi, Novit. Zool., xvi, 1909, 

 224 (Ocampo, Argentina; descr. eggs). 



[Caprimulgns] rufus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 2, 1789, 1030. — Latham, Index 

 Orn., ii, 1790, 586.— Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 59, no. 669.— Sharpe, Hand- 

 list, ii, 1900, 85, part. 



C[aprimulgus] rufus Hartert, Tierreich, Podarg., Caprim., Macropt., 1897, 43, 

 part. 



[Antrostomus] rufus Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 61. — Sclater and Salvin 

 Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 96. 



Antrostomus rufus Cassis, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1851, 183. — Sclater, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866, 136 (monogr.); Journ. fur Orn., 1867, 267.— Sclater 

 and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1875, 237 (San Cristobal, Venezuela). — 

 Taczanowski, Orn. du P4rou, i, 1884, 219.— Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. 

 Club, i, 1899, 78 (San Sebastian, Santa Marta, Colombia). — Robinson and 

 Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxiv, 1901, 171 (San Julian, Venezuela). 



Anthrostomus rufus Thayer and Bangs, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xlvi, 1906, 216 

 (Sabana de Panama). 



Antrostomus rutilus Burmeister, Syst. Ueb. Th. Bras., ii, 1856, 385. — Euler, 

 Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 253 (Brazil; habits). 



[Caprimulgus] rutilus Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 59, no. 670. 



Antrostomus ornatus Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., for 1866, pt. iii, April, 1867, 

 586, pi. 45 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; coll. Brit. Mus. and P. L. Sclater). 



o The two specimens examined have mostly assumed the adult plumage; therefore 

 the young plumage of certain parts only can be described. 



& I have not seen specimens from south of the Guianas, Venezuela, and Colombia. 



