13. LTNCOEUIS. 603 



Yoiinff. Less brilliantly coloured, the abdomen rather pale buff, 

 Hab. Colombia and Ecuador to Peru and Bolivia. 



a, b. S ?fid. sk. Antioquia, U.S. of Colombia Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{T. K. Salmon), 



c, d. Ad. St. Colombia. Purchased. 



^jf- 2 ; 9- Imni- Bogota. Gould and Sclater 



S ; h, i. cS ad. Colls. 



sk. 



k. 5 imm.sk. Matos, Ecuador (Z. Fraser). Sclater Coll. 



I. (S ad. sk. Near Quito. Gould Coll. 



m. 5 imm.sk. Tilotilo,ProT.Yuugas, Bolivia Salvin-Godman Coll, 

 (C. Buckley). 



3. Macropsalis forcipata *. 



Caprimulgus forcipatus, I^'itzscJi, Pterylogr. p. 125. 

 Caprimulgus megalurus, Licht. I\ amend, p. 62 (1854). 

 Hydropsalis limbatus, Cass. Journ. Ac. Phil. ii. p. 11.5. 

 Hydropsalis forcipatus, Burm. Srjst. Ueb. ii.p. £180 (1856) : Scl. Cat. 



Am. B. p. 281 (1862) ; id. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 143 ; Pelz. Om. Bras. 



p. 11 (1867) ; Cab. J.f. O. 1874, p. 226 (Pdo) ; Forbes, Ibis, 1881, 



p. 348 ; ,Salv. Cat. Strickl. Coll. p". 380 (1882). 

 Hydropsalis creagra, Bp. Consp. i. p. 58 (1850). 



Adult male. Upper surface brownish black spotted with rufous 

 buff; a pale rufous band across the hind neck ; first primary deep 

 brown, with buff spots on the inner web, the others with bars on 

 both webs ; outer pair of rectrices extremely elongated, the shafts 

 and outer webs uniform brownish black with small whitish tips, 

 inner webs of the same colour but broadly buffy white along the 

 outer edge ; lower parts buff, with some dark brown bars. Total 

 length about 30 inches, wing 9, lateral rectrices 24-5, central 2'7. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but the nuchal band less 

 distinct, the lower parts more rufous buff; outer rectrices deep 

 brown with fulvous bars, and only 7 inches in length. Wing only 

 7'7 inches. 



ITab. South-eastern parts of BrazU. 



a, b. cJ ad. sk. S. America (Brazil). Gould Coll 



c. Ad St. Brazil. Purchased. 



d,e,f.Ss.d.sk. Brazil. Salvin-Godman Coll, 



(/. S ad. ; h. 2 Brazil (Dillwi/u). Sclater Coll. 



ad. sk. 



/, k, I. c? «td. .sk. Sao Paulo, Brazil. 



13. LYNCORNIS. 



Type. 

 Lyncornis, Gould, Icon. Av. 183S, pi. iv L. cerviniceps. 



Key to the Species, 

 a. Wing more than 9 inches long. 



a'. Wing more than 11 inches cerviniceps, p. 604. 



* Hydropsalis ypanema, Pelz. Verb, zool.-bot. Ges. Wien, 1865, p. 985, 

 id. Orn. Bras. p. 11, Scl. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 143, is probably a female or young 

 .specimen of M. forcipata. 



