1. CAPRIMULGUS. 569 



B. N. Amer. p. 148 (ISCO) ; Scl. ^- Sale. Ibh, 1860, p. 275 (Guate- 

 mala) ; iid. Notimicl. Av. JVeotr. p. 96 (1873) ; >Scl. Cat. Am. B 

 p. 280 (1862) ; id. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 187; Blalcisf. Ibis, 1863, p. 55; 

 Baird, Breiv. if- Bidf/iv. N. Am. B. ii. p. 413 (1874) ; Merrill, Proc. 

 U. S. Nat. Mus. i. pp. 143, 146 (1878) ; Salein, Cut. Strickl. Coll. 

 p. 379 (1882); Sumichr. Nattiraleza, v. p. 249 (1882: Mexico); 

 Ridgio. Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. ix. p. 158 (1886; Piiebla)'; id. Man. 

 N. Amer. B. p. 299 (1887) ; Brncst. Auk, iii. p. 104 (1886 ; North 

 Carolina); Rives, torn. cit. p. 156; Lloyd, Auk, 1887, p. 191 (W. 

 Texas) ; Richmond, Auk. 1«88, p. 21 ; Cha^yman, Auk, 1888, p. 272 

 (Florida) ; Evermann. Auk, 1889, p. 22; Coru, Atik, 1889, u 276 

 (Porto Rico). ^ , ,1- 



Caprimulg-us vociferaus, Koeniij-Warth. J.f. O. 1868, p. 3(i9. 



Adult male. Crown ashy, minutely sprinkJed with dusky, very 

 narrowly streaked with black on the sides and very broadly in the 

 middle; mantle somewhat darker ashy, narrowly streaked with 

 black ; scapulars with very bold black spots and pale outer margins ; 

 quills deep blackish brown, spotted and irregularly banded with 

 ocbraceous on the outer and inner webs ; about the" terminal third 

 or more of the inner web of the outermost tail-feather, a much 

 smaller part of the outer web of the same tail-feather, a little more 

 than the terminal third of the following two pairs of rectrices snowy 

 white above, often margined with buff, pale buff below ; two 

 central pairs of rectrices grey, mottled and irregularly barred with 

 black and buff; chin and upper throat black, narrowly barred with 

 pale ochraceous ; a broad baud of white or buffy white across the 

 lower part of the throat ; breast mottled greyish, brownish, and 

 whitish ; abdomen similar but appearing almost buff from the broad 

 terminal patches of the last-named colour : under wing-coverts 

 almost pale ochraceous, bases of the feathers dusky like those of the 

 feathers of the whole upper and lower plumage. Total length about 

 9-5 to 10 inches, wing 5-8 to 6-3, tail 5*1 to b-o. 



Adult female. Differs in having only broad bufi' edges to the three 

 outer pairs of rectrices. 



Hab. Eastern United States of Xorth America, north to Nova 

 Scotia, New Brunswick, west to Manitoba and the edge of the Great 

 Plains ; south in wanter throughout Mexico to Guatemala. 



a. S ad. sk. N. America (HensJiaw). Salvin-Godnian Coll. 



b. $ ad. sk. Fort Duflerin. N. A. Boundary 



Comm. [P.]. 



c. S ad. sk. Chicago, 111. {Baird). Sclater Coll. 



d. 2 ad. sk. Englewood, 111. (Nelson). Salviu-Godmau Coll. 



e. 2 ad. sk. Evanston, III, May 7 {Frank Salviu-Godman Coll. 



L. Rice). 



f. 2 ad. sk. Michigan. Prof. Steere [P.]. 



ff. 2 ad. sk. Grantville, Mass., July 12 Salviu-Godiuan Coll. 



(Heus/unv). 



h-l. <S ? ad. New Haven, Conn., May, June Salvin-Godman Coll. 



sk. {Han-t Merriam). 



m. S ; n, 0. 2 Washington, D. C, April, May Salvin-Godman Coll. 



ad. sk. {IIen.-<haw). 



p. 2 ad. sk. Texas (Lawrence). Sclater Coll. 



