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and vermiculated with dusky grayish, the streaks broader on upper 

 tail-coverts; middle pair of rectrices mixed pale grayish brown and 

 brownish gray, confusedly vermiculated with dusky and with occa- 

 sional very irregularly zigzag more pronounced transverse markings 

 of the same; next pah* similar but with the darker markings heavier; 

 third pair with darker markings still heavier, disposed as large, irreg- 

 ular median blotches alternating with transverse areas of pinkish 

 buff, these nearly unbroken proximally but distally suffused with 

 Ught brownish gray broken by irregular markings of dusky, the tip 

 (for about 8 mm.) cream-buff minutely dashed or freckled with dusky 

 except on terminal margin, which is pale buff or buffy whitish; fourth 

 pair with black areas relatively broader and together with the paler 

 (mostly cinnamon-buff or deep cream-buff) interspaces, forming dis- 

 tinct transverse bands, much broken, however, along edges and on 

 distal portion, the tip (for about 10 mm.) pale pinkish buff or cream- 

 buff; fifth (outermost) pair similar to fourth, but buffy tip slightly 

 narrower ; loral region light buffy brownish, narrowly and indistinctly 

 barred with dusky, the orbital, auricular, and posterior malar regions 

 sunilar but darker; anterior portion of malar region spotted with 

 dull white; chin and throat pale grayish brown or bufl'y gray, very 

 narrowly and indistinctly barred with dusky anteriorly, more distinctly 

 barred posteriorly; lower throat or upper foreneck crossed by a rather 

 broad bar of pale buff, the feathers of upper portion rather broadly 

 barred with brownish black; immediately below this a rather broader 

 band of ochraceous-buff, sparsely barred with brownish black, con- 

 fluent or nearly so, laterally with the collar across lower hindneck; 

 chest and breast pale grayish brown and dull buffy whitish, vermicu- 

 lated with darker grayish brown and with shaft streaks of brownish 

 black; abdomen, sides, and flanks pale buff' irregularly barred with 

 dusky, the under tail-coverts similar but with the dusky bars more 

 sparse, mostly on distal portions of the longer coverts; under wing- 

 coverts light ochraceous-buff, more or less spotted (transversely) 

 with dusky, especially toward edge of wing; inner webs of primaries 

 dusky with large transverse spots or bands of ochraceous-buff, 

 interrupted along shafts and on distal portion broken by brownish 

 gray mottlings; bill deep brownish, darker terminally; legs and 

 feet deep brownish (in dried skin); length (skin), 248; wing, 162; 

 tail, 121; exposed culmen, 14; tarsus, 17; middle toe, 18.5." 

 Western Mexico, in State of Sinaloa (near Mazatlan). 



Antrostomus goldmani Nelson, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xiii, May 29, 1899, 26 



(near Mazatlan, Sinaloa, w. Mexico; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 

 [Caprimulgus] goldmani Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 84. 



o One specimen (the type.) 



