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(Santo Domingo, Feb.)- — Surber, Auk, xv, 1898, 61 (Greenbrier Co., West 

 Virginia, 1 spec, April 23). — Stone, Auk, xv, 1898, 330 (bird-eating habits). — 

 Lantz, Auk, XV, 1899, 187 (near Wichita, Kansas, June). — Thayer (G. H.), 

 Auk, xvi, 1899, 273 (bird-eating habits).— Bailey (Florence M.), Birds W. 

 U. S., 1902, 222.— Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. Club, iii, 1902, 26 (Boquete, 

 Panama, 4,500 feet, March). — Colvin, Auk, xxii, 1905, 81 (Chautauqua 

 Co., Kansas, summer resident). — Fleming, Auk, xxiii, 1906, 343 (Point 

 Pelee, Ontario, 1 spec, May 19, 1906). — Taverner and Swales, Wilson 

 Bull., no. 61, 1907, 135 (Point Pelee, 1 spec. May 21, 1906).— Carriker, 

 Ann. Carnegie Mus., vi, 1910, 505 (near San Jose and Rio Sicsola, Costa Rica), — 

 Lacey, Auk, xxviii, 1911, 210 (Kerrville, Texas, breeding). 



[Antrostomus] carolinensis Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 60. — Gundlach, 

 Journ. flir Orn., 1861, 330 (Cuba).— Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 1872, 180.— 

 Sclater and Salvin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 96. — Cory, List Birds West 

 Ind., 1885, 16. 



A[ntroslomtis\ carolinensis Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iii, 1860, 90 (Cuba). — 

 Newton, Handb. Jamaica, 1881, 109. — Coues, Key N. Am. Birds, 2d ed., 

 1884, 451.— RiDGWAY, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 298. 



[Antrostomus carolinensis'] Bailey (H. H.), Auk, xxv, 479 (Warwick Co., Virginia, 

 breeding); xxvi, 1909, 306 (Newport News, Virginia, breeding). 



Androstomus carolinensis Cory, Birds Haiti and San Dom., 1885, 84. 



Caprimulgus lucifugus Bartram, Travels Florida, etc., 1791, 290. 



Caprimulgus rvfus (not of Boddaert) Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept., i, 1807, 57, pi. 25. 



Caprimulgus brachypterus Stephens, Shaw's Gen. Zool., x, pt. 1, 1817, 150 (based 

 on Short-winged Goatsucker Pennant, Arctic Zool., ii, 434). 



ANTROSTOMUS RUFUS RUFUS (Boddaert.) 



RUFOUS GOATSUCKER. 



Very closely resembling A. carolinensis in coloration, even to the 

 pattern and color of the lateral rectrices in the adult male, but shghtly 

 darker and smaller, and rictal bristles without lateral filaments. 



Adult male. — General color of upper parts tawny-brown (usually 

 near russet), vermiculated with dusky and streaked and spotted with 

 black; pileum narrowly streaked with black laterally, the streaks 

 much broader on median portion, especially on crown, where some- 

 times enlarged into irregular longitudinal spots; back similarly 

 marked, but the streaks mostly smaller, the rump with strealvs less 

 distinct, sometimes obsolete ; scapulars w^ith large subterminal irreg- 

 ular spots or blotches of black, usually margined with deep ochraceous- 

 buff, their inner webs largely buffy, sparsely vermiculated with 

 dusky; wing-coverts with smaller subterminal black spots; inner 

 secondaries C'tertials") pale dull buff, vermiculated and sprinkled 

 with dusky and with a more or less distinct median streak, or series 

 of small irregular spots, of black, the other secondaries dull black 

 marbled ^dth cinnamon-rufous, or with irregular spots of the same 

 disposed in transverse series; primaries dull black spotted wth 

 cinnamon-rufous, their terminal portion marbled with dull Hght cinna- 

 mon-rufous and dusky; primary coverts dull black spotted with 

 cinnamon-rufous; middle pair of rectrices irregularly marbled, 

 streaked and spotted with black and light cinnamon-rufous (the 



