684 CAPKIMCLGIDJE. 



regular on the outer pair, and disappears on the pair next to the 

 central ones, but these bars vary a great deal in shape and size. 



Specimens from the Merumc Mountains in British Guiana and from 

 Colombia seem to be rather larger and darker, but this docs not appear 

 to be a constant character, as the species varies to a certain extent 

 in shade of colour. 



Hah. Piom Manama throughout the northern parts of South 

 America, Colombia, Venezuela, Guiana, and the islands of Trinidad 

 and Tobago. 



Messrs. Sclater and Salvin {1. c.) record the species from Martinique, 

 but this statement -wants confirmation. 



a. (S ad. sk. S. America. Purchased. 



h. (S ad. sk. S. America. Gould Coll. 



c. (S ; d. ^ ad. Chitra, Veragua {Arc6). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



sk. 



e. cJ;/. 2ad. Bogota. Sclater Coll. 



sk. 



g. S ad. sk. Antioquia, U.S. of Colombia Salvin-Godman Coll. 



(Salmon). 



h, i, k. (S ad. sk. Tobago (Kirk). Sclater Coll. 



/. c? ad. sk. Venezuela. Purchased. 



m, n. (S ; 0. 2 Roraima, Brit. Guiana, Nov., Salvin-Godman Coll. 



ad. sk. Dec. (H. White/ 1/). 



p. 2 imm. sk. Merume Mts., Brit. Guiana, Sah-in-Godman Coll. 



June (H. WhiMy). 



q-s. iS ; t. 2 Aunai, Brit. Guiana, June, Salvin-Godman Coll. 



ad. sk. July, Dec. (K. Whitely). 



u. (S ad. sk. Guiana (Broimi). Sclater Coll. 



3. Stenopsis ruficervix. 



Stenopsis ruficervix, Sd. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 140, pi. xiv. (Colombia) ; 



Gray, Hand-l. i. p. 69 (1809) ; Sd. cj- Salvin, P. Z. S. 1870, p. 782 



(Merida, Venezuela) ; iid. Nomencl. Av. Neutr. p. 96; iid. P. Z. S. 



1879, p. 531 ; Salcin, Ibis, 1885, p. 439 (B. Guiana). 

 Caprimulgus decussatus, Cab. (nee Tsch.) in Schomb. Guiana, iii. 



p. 710 (1848). 

 ? Stenopsis platura*, Pelz. P. Z. S. 1860, p. 589; id. Orn. Bras. 



pp. 12, 53 (1807). 



Adult male. Above black spotted with rufous, the spots on the 

 sides of the crown whitish ; a rufous band across the hind neck ; 

 wing-coverts with larger buff spots ; primaries deep blackish brown, 

 the first four crossed by a band of pure wliite ; four lateral pairs of 

 rectrices with broad white tips, but the outer web more or less over- 

 spread with brown and the white on the fourth less in extent ; a 

 narrower white band across the middle of the tail confined to the inner 

 webs, a still narrower and sometimes ill-defined one near the base ; 

 central pair of rectrices similar in colour to the upper parts, without 

 white ; chin and breast similar in colour to the upper wing-coverts ; 

 a white band across the throat ; abdomen fulvous, becoming more or 

 less uniform to the lower tail-coverts. Total length about 9 inches, 

 wing 6-3 to 6"8, tail 4'0. 



Adult female. Different from the male. The band across the 



* Seems to be smaller tliau St. ruficervix. 



