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small irregular or broken spots of dull ochraceous-buff; biU brown, 

 blackish terminally; ii'is dark brown; legs and feet brownish, the 

 toes darker terminally; length (skins), 270-272 (271); wing, 177-189 

 (181.8); tail, 131.5-141.5 (134.8); exposed cuhnen, 14-15 (14.5); 

 tarsus, 17-19 (18); middle toe, 18-18.5 (18.2).« 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but lateral rectrices more 

 narrowly tipped with white and ochraceous-buff, these light-colored 

 tips about 15 mm. in extent (at widest part) on outer pair, about 

 8-10 mm. wide on thhd pair, with more or less of white centrally, 

 especially on fourth and inner web of fifth (outermost) rectrices; 

 length (skin), 255; wing, 176; tail, 121; exposed culmen, 15.5; 

 tarsus, 18; middle toe, 18.^ 



Island of Cuba (Bayate; Cienega de Zapata island; coast of 

 Manzanillo) and Isle of Pines. 



Capiimulgus vod/erus (not of Wilson) D'Orbigny, in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, 

 Ois., i, 1839, 98.— Lembeye, Avea de la Isla de Cuba, 1850, 130. 



Antrostomus vocifcrus Cabanis, Journ. fiir Orn., 1856, 6. — Brewer, Proc. Bost. 

 Soc. Nat. Hist., vii, 1850, 306. 



Antrostomus cubanensis Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., vii, 1862 (pub- 

 lished May, 1860), 260 (Cienega de Zapata I. and coast of Manzanillo, Cuba; 

 coll. G. N. Lawrence).— Albrecht, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 203 (translation 

 of orig. descr.). — Gundlach, Repert. Fieico-Nat, Cuba, i, 1866, 283; Journ. 

 fiir Orn., 1874, 120 (habits); Orn. Cubana, ed. 1895, 102.— Sclater, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866, 585 (crit.).— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 342; Birds West 

 Ind., 1889, 137; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 105, 128.— Bangs and Zappey, 

 Am. Nat., xxxix, 1905, 203 (Isle of Pines). 



[Antrostomus] cubanensis Gundlach, Journ. fiir Orn., 1861, 330. — Cory, List 

 Birds West Ind., 1885, 16. 



Antrost[omu^] cubanensis Gundlach, Jom-n. fiir Orn., 1861, 411, in text (crit.). 



A[ntrostomu^] cubanensis Ridgway, Man. N, Am. Bii-ds, 1887, 298. 



Androstomus cubanensis Cory, Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 12. 



Antrostomus macromystax var. cubanensis Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. 

 N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 409. 



[Caprimulgus] cubanensis Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 59, no. 664. — Sharpe, Hand- 

 list, ii, 1900, 85. 



C[a-primulgus\ cubanensis Hartert, Tierreich, Podarg. , Caprim. , Macropt. , 1897, 43. 



Caprimulgus cubanensis Hartert, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 571. 



ANTROSTOMUS VOCIFERUS VOCIFERUS (Wilson). 



WHIPPOORWILL. 



Adult male. — General color of upper parts mixed grayish brown 

 and brownish gray, minutely vermiculated and stippled with dusky; 

 pUeum streaked with black, the streaks narrow and linear (some- 

 times obsolete) on lateral portions, much broader and more guttate 

 along median line, where usually coalesced and forming an irregular 

 stripe; scapulars with large irregular spots or blotches of black, 

 these usually margined, in part, with irregular narrow areas of buff 



a Three specimens. 6 One specimen. 



