592 CAPRIMULGIDiE. 



strongl}' developed. Wing pointed, third primary longest ; tail 

 rounded, almost graduated. Tarsi long and naked. The sexes differ 

 slightly in coloration. 



Range. Restricted to the island of Jamaica. 



1. SiphonorMs americanus. 



Small Wood-Owl, Sloane, Voy. Jamaica, ii. p. 296. 



Caprlmulgus americanus, Linn. St/st. Nat. ed. x. p. 193 (1758) ; id. 



ed. xii. i. p. .346 (1766) ; Gfn. Si/st. Nat. ii. p. 1032 (1788) ; Vieill. 



Nouv. Diet. X. p. 239 (1817). 

 Eno-ouleveut a Lunettes ou Haleur, Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. vi. p. 543 



(1779). 

 Chordeiles americanus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 63 (1850). 

 Siphonorhis americanus, Scl. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 77; id. Cat. Ain. B. 



p. 282 (18G2) ; id. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 144 ; id. J.f. 0. 1867, p. 277 ; 



Albrecht, J. f. O. 1862, p. 199 ; March, Pr. Ac. Nat. Sc. Phil. 



1863, p. 286; Grail, Hand-l. B. i. p. 60 (1869); Scl. ^- Salv. 



Nomencl. Av. Neotrop. p. 97 (1873) ; A. Si JE. Neivt. Handh. 



Jamaica, p. 109 (1881) ; Cory, List B. W. Lid. i. p. 16 (1885) ; 



id. B. W. Ind. p. 139 (1889). 



Adult male. General colour a somewhat rufous-brown, mottled 

 and streaked with greyish and dark brown : along the top of the 

 head some broader, on the back and rump some narrower blackish 

 shaft-stripes ; scapulars heavily blotched with black and laterally 

 streaked with whitish ; wing-coverts with buff terminal spots ; 

 primaries deep brown, irregularly banded with rufous, this colour 

 being lighter on the outer webs ; rectrices dull rufous, irregularly 

 barred and mottled with dark brown, and with a dark brown sub- 

 terminal bar and a white terminal bar ; throat and breast dark 

 rufous-brown, a white band across the former ; feathers of the 

 lower breast dark brown, tipped and barred with dull white ; abdo- 

 men fawn-colour, barred with brown. Total length nearly 9 inches, 

 wing 5-3, tail -l-S, tarsus 0-9, middle toe 0-95, culmen 0-4, width of 

 gape 0'6. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but a little paler, the white 

 patch on the throat somewhat duller, and the rectrices tipped with 

 buff instead of white. 



Hah. Jamaica. 



a. S ad. sk. Trelawny, Jamaica, Sept. 14 (Osburn). Sclater Coll. 



b. 5 ad. sk. Westmoreland, Jamaica, Aug. 21 (Os- Sclater Coll. 



burn). 



7. HELEOTHREPTUS. 



Type. 

 Amblypterus, Gotdd (nee Ayass.), P. Z. S. 1837, p. lOo. H. anomalus. 

 Eleotiireptus {lege Heleothreptus), Gray, List Gen. B. 



p. 7 (1840) H. anomalus. 



In this very remarkable genus the male and the female have 

 totally different wings. In the male the first six primaries are 

 curved inwards and about equal in length, the seventh, eighth, and 



