600 CAPEIMULGID^. 



«. (S ad. sk. Cordova. G. T. Baker, Esq, 



[P-] 

 b. (S ad. ; c. 2 Gualeguaychu (Lee). Sclater Coll. 



ad. sk. 



d. 2 ad. sk. Puntalara, Oct. 18. Dumford Coll. 



e. cJimm. ;/. $ Mendoza (Weisshatipt). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 ad. .sk. 



(/. Ad. St. Brazil. Mrs. Johnson [P.]. 



h. 2 ad. sk. Brazil. Purchased. 



J. 2 ad. sk. Forte do Principe, Brazil, Sclater Coll. 



Aug'. 14 {Natterer). 



k. 2 ad. sk. Bolivia. Sclater Coll. 



3. Hydropsalis climacocercus. 



Hydropsalis climacocercus, Tsc/i. Wieffm. Arch. 1844, Consp. p. 9; 



id. Faun. Per., Orn. p. 128, pi. vi. fig. 1 (1846); Bp. Coyisp. i. 



p. 59 (18.50) ; Gray, Hand-l. i. p. 58 (1869). 

 Hydropsalis trifurcata, Isch. Wiegin. Arch. 1844, Consp. p. 9 (descr. 



nulla); id. Faun. Per., Orn. p. 129, e.v Natt. MS. (1846); Pp. 



Consp. I. p. 69 (1850) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 141 ; Scl. 8,- Salv. 



P. Z. S. 1866, p. 193 (Lower Ucayali) ; Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 11 



(1867); Scl. ^- Salv. P. Z. S. 1867, pp. 58.3, 978 (Tocantins; 



Pebas) ; iid. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 290, 1879, p. 626 (Bolivia) ; iid. 



No7nencl. Av. Neotrop. p. 96 (1873) ; Gray, Hand-l. i. p. 58 (1869) ; 



Tacz. Orn. Perou, i. p. 224 (1884). 



Adult female. Upper parts clear rufous grey vermiculated with 

 black ; along the to]) of the head, back, and rump some longitudinal 

 black spots, bolder on the crown ; scapulars with large central 

 triangular black spots, with broad buff edges to the outer webs ; 

 primaries deep brown, nearly black, with a broad white band across 

 the first four, one or two distinct and one indistinct white band 

 across the rest ; secondaries with white bars to the inner webs ; tail 

 deeply furcate, the central pair of rectrices elongated, grey, with 

 narrow black bars ; outer elongated pair of rectrices with the outer 

 webs deep brown, barred with pale smoky browu on the basal part, 

 white at the tip ; inner webs white, with some short and one very 

 long and broad deep blackish-brown patch and a greyish tip ; the 

 rectrices next to the central pair white, broadly tipped with brown 

 and washed with this colour near the base of the outer web ; chin 

 and upper throat whitish ; breast buff, barred with dark brown ; 

 abdomen white, with indications of dark bars ; lower tail-coverts 

 washed with sandy buff. Total length about 10"3 inches, wing 6"3, 

 lateral rectrices 6'9, central 6'6, shortest 4-2, tarsus 0*6, half 

 feathered in front. 



Adult female. Different from the male. Above duller and more 

 greyish ; the bands across the primaries pale rufous, narrower, and 

 two or thi'ee in number on the first ; abdomen barred ; lower tail- 

 coverts rich buff; rectrices pale brown, barred with dusky, 

 measuring only 5*1, 4"9, 3-8 inches in length. 



Hah. Brazil to the eastern parts of Peru and Ecuador. 



a, b. (S ad. sk. S. America. Gould Coll. 



c. (S ad. sk. Peru. Tweeddale Coll. 



d. (S ad. sk. Yuyo, Bolivia (C Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



