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brilliantly coloured and smaller. The type of C. fuhnventris is a 

 trifle smaller than C. natalensis, with the wing measuring 6 inches ; 

 it is somewhat more uniform on the back, neck, and breast. There 

 are also two specimens from Gaboon, male and female, which are 

 similar to the bird from Angola, but are still smaller, the wing 

 measuring 5'5 inches only and the tail 36 ; and then there is a 

 single specimen from Accra (the type of C. accne), a very pale bird 

 in somewhat worn plumage, which in size closely resembles the type 

 from Angola, the wing measuring 5-8 inches and the tail 3'9. 



I recognize, therefore, a northern form of C. nataJensis, which I 

 think should bear the name of C. fulviventr'is, its oldest appellation. 



More information is much wanted about this form to confirm its 

 validity and to determine its limits. At present T prefer to keep it 

 distinct from the southern G. natalensis, but the specimens from 

 Gaboon lead me to unite G. fulviventris and G. accrce. 



a. (5 ad. sk. Bembe, Angola. Monteiro Coll. (Type 



of C.fulvirentris, Hartl.) 



b. 2 ad. sk. Gaboon. M. A. Bouvier [C.]. 



c. S ad. sk. Gaboon. H. T. Ansell, Esq. [P.]. 



d. c? inim. sk. Accra {Smith). Sbarpe Coll. (Type of 



C. accrce, Shelley.) 



27. Caprimulgus carolinensis. 



Le Tette-chevre de la Caroline, Uriss. Orn. ii. p. 475 (1760). 



Caprimulgus carolinensis, Gin. Si/st. Nat. ii. p. 1028 (1788) ; Steph. 

 Gen. Zool. x. p. 149 (1824); 'iJ'iho??, Amer. Orn. p. 297, pi. 54 

 (1832) ; Aud. Orn. Bioq. i. p. 273, pi. 52, v. u. 401 (1839) ; Koenig- 

 Waiih. J.f. 0. 1868, p. 308 (nidification). " 



Caprimulgus lucifugus, Bartr. Trav. Florida, p. 290 (1791). 



Caprimulgus bracbypterus, Steph. Gen. Zool. x. p. 150 (1824). 



Antrostomus carolinensis, Gvuld, Icon. Av. (1838) ; Bji. Consp. i. 

 p. 60 (1850) ; Cass. Pr. Ac. Phil. v. p. 183 (1851) ; Cab. 8; Heine, 

 Mus. Hein. iii. p. 90 (1860); Scl Cat. Am. B. p. 280 (1862); 

 Dresser, Ibis, 1865, p. 470 (Texas) ; Sahin, Ibis, 1866, p. 195 ; 

 Scl. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 136 ; Gray, Hand-l. i. p. 58 (1869) ; Coues, 

 Key N. Amer. B. p. 180 (1872) ; -SW. 8f Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. 

 p. 96 (1873) ; Baird, Brew., ^'Pidgiv. N. Am. B. ii. p. 410 (1874) ; 

 Gundl. J. f. O. 1874, p. 120 (Cuba) ; 3Ierrill, Proc. U. S. Nat. 

 Mm. i. p. 146 (1878) ; Scl. 8,- Salv. P. Z. S. 1879, p. 531 ; Cory, B. 

 Bahamas, p. 104 (1880) ; Nidting, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. vi. p. 375 

 (1883 ; Costa Rica) ; Cory, B. Haiti ^ S. Domingo, p. 84 (1885) ; 

 id. Auk, 1886, p. 341 ; id. B. W. Ind. i.p. 136 (1889) ; Fox, Auk, 

 1886, p. 319; Ridyw. Man. N. Am. B. p. 298 (1887) ; Chapman, 

 Auk, 1888, p. 272 ; Scott, Auk, 1889, p. 252. 



Adult male. Bristles of the gape with lateral filaments. Upper 

 parts dark brown much mottled with rufous-brown ; black streaks 

 along the top of the head and back, somewhat less longitudinal on 

 the lower rump and upper tail-coverts ; some pale ochraceous 

 streaks on the hind neck, forming a kind of very indistinct collar ; 

 scapulars with black central spots and rufous-buff markings ; upper 

 wing-coverts with rufous-buff terminal spots ; quills deep brown, 

 spotted and irregularly barred on the outer and inner webs with 

 ochraceous ; rcctrices ochraceous, mottled and indistinctly barred 



