1. CAPRIMDLGUS. 5/3 



tral pairs with broad irregular bars of greyish brown, three outer 

 pairs with narrower rufous-brown bands, the second and third outer 

 pair tipped with white for about half an inch ; lower parts dark 

 brown, barred with pale brown, somewhat broader and more 

 whitish on the breast ; a band of white, sometimes more or less in- 

 terrupted in the middle, across the throat. Total length about 7-5 

 inches, wing 5o, tail 3"9, tarsus 0'5. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but without white spots to the 

 primaries, and without white tips to the rectrices. 



ffab. The greater part of Tropical South xlmerica : Peru, Ecua- 

 dor, Colombia, Guiana, Brazil. 



Bogota, Colombia. Sclater & Salvin- 



Godman Colls. 



Sarayacu, Ecuador (C. Buck- Salvin-Godman Coll. 



ley). 



Rio Negro, Oct. 2 (Natterer). Sclater Coll. 



Eetreat River, B. Guiana. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Bartica Grove, B. Guiana, Jan., Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Sept. {H. WhitebjX 



Camacusa, B. Guiana, April 1-") Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(ff. Whitely). 



Para, Brazil. R. Graham, Esq. [P.]. 



Para, Brazil (A. R. Wallace). Sclater Coll. 



Para, Brazil (Kutterer). Sclater Coll. 



35. Caprimulgus whitelyi. (Plate XII.) 

 Antrostomus whitelyi, Salvin, Ibis, 1885, p. 438. 



Adult male. Above similar to C. nigrescens, but larger, with the 

 superciliary stripe not visible ; on the upi^er wing-coverts some 

 larger white spots : scapulars not so brightly marked. Beneath, 

 chin and breast black, with some pale fulvous terminal spots ; throat 

 white, somewhat interrupted in the middle by brown spotted with 

 buff; entire abdomen brownish black, indistinctly barred with pale 

 fulvous and buff)' white : primaries deep blackish brown, with a 

 band of white across the first three ; secondaries spotted with buff 

 on the inner webs ; rectrices black, the central pair similar to the 

 upper surface, being indistinctly barred on both webs, the outer 

 pairs distinctly barred Avith buff ou the inner webs only ; second 

 and third outer tail-feathers on each side subterminally white on 

 the inner webs for about one inch. Total length about 8-5 inches, 

 wing 6-3, tail 4, tarsus 0-51. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but the first primary with a 

 narrow fiilvous bar on the inner web only ; second and third with a 

 narrow fulvous bar on both webs ; rectrices with little white only. 



Easily distinguished from C. nigrescens by the white spots on the 

 rectrices being confined to the inner webs, the abdomen being less 

 distinctly barred, and the female haAnng a fulvous bar across the 

 first primaries. 



In the male before me there is no first primary, but I do not 



