2. PflAL.F.XOPTILUS. 579 



43. Caprimulgus pulchellus. 



Caprimuliriis pulchellus, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. xiv. p. 195 



(1879)': 



Adult male. Toj) of the head and scapulars grey, spotted and 

 barred with black ; an obsolete nuchal collar rufous, banded with 

 black ; scapulars jjartlj^ mottled with rufous, some of the feathers 

 margined with whitish rufous ; rump and upper tail-coverts black, 

 mottled with rufous ; lower parts varied with dark brown, rufous, 

 and whitish ; a patch of white across the throat, bordered with black 

 below ; breast ornamented with numerous bands of black, grej", and 

 rufous ; the bands broader ou the abdomen ; abdomen spotted with 

 darker and paler rufous ; wings black, wing-coverts and secondaries 

 spotted with rufous ; second, third, fourth, and fifth primaries with a 

 white spot in the middle ; tail black, crossed by bars of rufous spots ; 

 lateral pair of rectrices tij^ped with white on the inner web, the 

 following pair with a smaller subterminal spot of white : rictal 

 bristles black. Total length about 8-3 inches, wing 6-5, tail 4, 

 tarsus 0-5. (Salvadon.) 



Somewhat resembling C. concretus, but easily distinguished by 

 having white patches ou the primaries. 



Hob. Mount Singalan, W. Sumatra. 



I have not seen this species. 



2. PHAL^NOPTILUS. 



Type. 



Phalifinoptilus, Ridyw. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. iii. p. 



(1880) P. nuttalli. 



The extremely soft and silky plumage of this genus is very 

 remarkable. The distinctive characters pointed out by Eidgway 

 (I. c.) may safely be regarded as sufficient for generic separation. 

 The eggs, which are spotted as a rule in all species of Cajjrimulgus, 

 are of a uniform dead white in the present genus. 



Mange. Prom Southern Mexico to Oregon and Washington west 

 of the Rocky Mountains in the north. 



] . Phalsenoptilus nuttalli *. 



Caprimulgus nuttalli, And. B. Amer. vii. p. 350, pi. 495 (1843) ; 



Koeniii-Warth. J.f. O. 1808, p. 379 (nidif.). 

 Antrostomus nuttalli, Cass. Proc. Acad. Philad. v. p. 183 (1852) ; id. 



Cat. Capi-im. Mus. Philad. Acad. p. 13 (1852) ; id. U S. Krpl. Exp. 



p. 187 (1858) ; Baird, B. N. A. p. 149 (1860) ; Dresser, Ibis, 1865, 



p. 470 (Texas) ; Cones, Ibis, 1865, p. 538 ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 137 ; 



Gray, Hand-l. i. p. 69 (1869) ; Baird, Brewer, ^ Ridgio. N. Am. B. 



ii. p. 417 (1874); Ridyw. U.S. Geol. Expl. iOtk Par. iii. p. 667 



(1877) ; Beldiny, Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. i. p. 427 (1879). 

 PhahBnoptilus nuttalli, Ridyw. Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus. iii. p. 5 (1880) ; 



id. Man. N. Amer. B. p. 299 (1887) ; Drew, Auk, 1885, p. 17 ; 



Scott, Auk, 1885, p. 356 (S. Arizona), 1886, p. 429 ; Shufeldt, Auk, 



1885, p. 382 ; Hensh. Auk, 1886, p. 78 (New Mexico) ; Evermann, 



* Antrostomus californianus, Bp. Oonsp. i. p. 61, has been quoted as a synonym 

 of the present species, but the description of Bonaparte does cot well corresjiond. 



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