5G8 capkimulgidj:. 



shaft, laterally mottled and barred with pale rufous; top of the 

 head and scapulars lighter, but the black spots much bolder; round 

 the neck a not very obvious band of rufous ; primaries deep brown, 

 largely spotted with rufous on the outer webs, the secondaries 

 spotted on both webs ; rectrices deep brown mottled with rufous, 

 the three outer pairs broadly tipped with silky white fringed with 

 rusty, the white tips largest on the outer pair ; lower parts deep 

 brown, barred with pale rufous or buff, and with large butf termi- 

 nal spots to the feathers. Total length about 12 inches, wing 7"3, 

 tail 6, tarsus 0-8 ; longest rictal bristles nearly 1| inches in length. 

 Huh, South America (Brazil). (? Venezuela.) 



a. S ad. sk. S. America. Sclater Coll. 



30. Caprimulgus salvini. 



Antrostomus macromystax, Baird, Breic. 8f Ridgto. {nee Wagl.) 

 Amer. B. ii. p. 409 (1874) ; Ridgiv. Man. N. Am.B. p. 298 (1887). 

 Caprimulgus salvini, Hartert, Ibis, 1892, p. 287. 



Adult male. Above deep brown, mottled with pale rufous-brown 

 and with longitudinal black streaks ; sides of the crown strongly 

 mottled with whitish, feathers of the crown with large black termi- 

 nal spots ; a narrow rufous collar round the neck ; scapulars very 

 boldly marked ; primaries deep brown, spotted with rufous on both 

 webs ; innermost secondaries whitish at the tips and margins ; three 

 outer tail-feathers largely tipped with white, these white spots being 

 largest on the lateral rectrices ; two central pairs blackish, irregu- 

 larly barred and mottled with pale rufous ; sides of the head 

 blackish, spotted with rufous ; a large black malar patch ; lower 

 parts deep brown, mottled with pale rufous and largely tipped with 

 buffy white terminally; feathers above the rufous collar on the 

 lower neck very lai'ge, tijjped with bufiy white and with a narrow 

 terminal line of black ; middle of the throat without whitish colour ; 

 lower under wing-coverts deep brown, largely tipped with rufous- 

 buff. Total length about 10 to 10"o inches, wing 6-7, tail 5-5, 

 tarsus 0*78 ; longer rictal bristles 1'4 to 1"G. 



Adult female. Differs from the male in having the three outer 

 rectrices tipped with buff. 



Hab. Mexico and Yucatan. 



a. cJ ad. sk. Nuevo LeoD, Mexico (F. B.Arm- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



strong). 

 h. S ad. sk. Merida, Yucatan, Jan. 7 {G. F. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Ganmer). 



31. Caprimulgus vociferus. 



Caprimiilgus vociferus, Wilson, Amer. Orn. v. p. 71, pi. 41 (1812) ; 

 Thienem. Fortpfl. Vog. pi. xlii. fig. 17 (1854; g'^^); Eidgic. Proc. 

 v. S. Nat. Mus. iii. p. 5 (1880) ; Laivr. Auk, 1885, p. 272 ; Af/ers- 

 horq, Auk, 188/5, p. 283 (S.E. Dakota). 



