1. CAPRIMULGUS. 



575 



e. ($ imm. sk. 



9-'^ 



f. cj imm 

 ad. sk. 

 h, i. (S ad. sk. 

 k. (5" imm. sk. 

 /. 2 ad.sk. 

 jn. 2 ad. sk. 



Villa Maria, Brazil, Sept. 4 Sclater Coll. 



{Natterer). 



Pelotas, Eio Grande do Sul, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



Brazil (Joyner). 



Brazil. Sclater Coll. 



Brazil. Purchased. 



Brazil {Natterer). Sclater Coll. 



Near Santa Fe, R. Parana. C. Darwin, Esq. [C.]. 

 (Tj'pe of the species.) 



37. Caprimulgus maculicaudus. 



Stenopsis maculicaudus, Laicr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vii. p. 459 (1862 ; 



Para !). 

 Antrostomus maculicaudus, Scl. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 586, pi. xlvi. ; id. 



Sr Salv. Nomeiid. Av. Keotr. p. 96 (1873) ; Tacz. Om. Perou, i. 



p. 216 (1884) ; Berl. ^- Leverk. Ornis, 1890, p. 29. 



Adult male. Above brown mottled with blackish ; top of the 

 head black, with a pale rufous spot on the margins of the feathers ; 

 a distinct buff line from the forehead over the cje ; a rufous band 

 across the hind neck ; scapulars black in the centre, the outer webs 

 with broad buff margins ; wing-coverts with bulf spots near the 

 tips ; primaries deep brown, with from two to six large rufous spots 

 on the inner and outer webs ; central pair of rectrices greyish, 

 mottled and barred with black ; four outer pairs of rectrices tipped 

 with white, inner webs with two to three round white spots ; 

 feathers of the chin and throat buff, deep brown at the bases and 

 tips ; the feathers of the breast narrowly barred with black, uniform 

 on the lower abdomen ; under wing-coverts buff, barred with brown. 

 Total length about 7 inches, wing o'l to 5-2, tail 3-8, tarsus 0-5. 

 (Description of a specimen in the Berlepsch collection.) 



Female. Similar to the male, but having no white spots on the 

 inner web of the outer rectrices, both webs being brown, irregularly 

 barred with buff. 



This species has the first primary exactly as long as or almost 

 longer than the second. The female is very similar to the female 

 of Stenopsis cayennensis, but the longer first primary and the shape 

 of the tail, in which the lateral feathers are shorter than the central 

 ones, as well as the distinct buff line over the eye, distinguishes it 

 well enough. 



Ilab. Andes, from Colombia to Peru. 



a. 2 ad. sk. 



b. 2 ad. sk. 



S. America. 



Peru, July (H. IMiitely). 



Purchased. 

 Sclater Coll. 



38. Caprimulgus yucatanicus. 



Adult female. Top of the head viuaceous rufous, each feather 

 with a blackish -brown shaft-stripe ; back and rump rufous-brown 

 with brownish-black shaft-stripes ; all the upper parts very minutely 

 mottled with dusky ; scapulars with bolder longitudinal blackish 

 spots ; wing-coverts similarly coloured, a series of the middle ones 



