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CAl'RIMULGID^, 



1. Chordeiles virginianus.* 



Le Tette-clievre de la Vii'^,nnie, L'riss. Orn. ii. p. 477 (1700). 



Capriiuulg-us viryiiiianus, G?u. S. N. ii. p. 1028 (1788) ; Steph. Gen. 

 Zool. X. p. 153 (1817) ; Aud. Orn. Biogr. ii. p. 273, pi. 147 (1834) ; 

 Koenicj-Warih. J.f. O. 18G8, p. 373; Laicr. Fruc. U. S. Nat. Mus. 

 i. p. 450 (1878). 



Chordeiles virgiuianiis, Swains. Faun. Bor.-Amer. ii. p. 496 (1831) ; 

 ? Gosse, B. Jamaica, p. 33 (1847) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 63 (1850) ; 

 Cab. c5- Heine, Mus. Huin. iii. p. 86 (18G0) ; Sol. ^- Sulv. Ibis, 1860, 

 p. 275 (Cxiiatemala) ; Scl. Cat. Am. B. p. 279 (1862) ; Sol. ^ Salv. 

 F. Z. S. 1864, p. 364 (Panama) ; iid. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 96 

 (1873) ; iid. F. Z. S. 1879, p. 531 ; Scl. F. Z. S. 1866, p. 133; 

 Gray, Hand-l. i. p. 61 (1869) ; Coues, Key N. Am. B. p. 181 

 (1872); Bnrrotos, Auk, 1884, p. 24; Stejn. Auk, 1885, p. 178; 

 Turner, Froc. U.S. Mus. y'ui. p. 242 (1885 ; Labrador) ; Brewst. 

 Auk, 1886, p. 105; I'o.v, t. c. p. 319; Cory, B. W. Ind. p. 135 

 (1889) ; Berl. J.f. 0. 1887, p. 19 (Paraguay); Bidytv. Man. N. 

 Am. B. p. 301 (1887); Lanc/don, Auk, 1887, p. 130; Richmond, 

 Auk, 1888, p. 21 ; Scl. S( Hudson, Arge^itinc Orn. ii. p. 13 (1889) ; 

 Fverm. Auk, 1889, p. 22; Merrill, Auk, 1889, p. 256; Feilden, 

 Ibis, 1889, p. 486 (Barbados). 



Caprimulgus popetue, Vieill. Ois. Am. Sept. i. p. 56, pi. xxiv. ( $ ) 

 (1807) ; id. Nouv. Diet. x. p. 242 (1817). 



Chordeiles popetue, Baird, B. N. Am. p. 151 (1858) ; Dresser, Ibis, 

 1865, p. 471 ; Feb. Orn. Bras. p. 14 (1867) ; Baird, Breiv. ^ 

 Ridqw. N. Am. B. ii. p. 401 (1874); Ridgiu. U.S. Geol. Expl. 

 40th Far. iii. p. 568 (1877) ; Merrill, Froc. U.S. Nat .Mus. iii. p. 6 

 (1880) ; Stearns, Froc. U.S. Nat. Mus. y\. p. 117 (1883 ; La- 

 brador) ; Af/ei-sborg, Auk, 1885, p. 283 (S.E. Dakota) ; Coues, Auk, 

 vi. p. 37 (1888). 



Long-winged Goatsucker, Fenn. Arct. Zool. ii. p. 337 (1785). 



Caprimulgus americauus, Wils. {nee Linn.) Am. Orn. v. j). 65, pi. xl. 



Chordeiles americauus, De Kay, N. Y. Zool. ii. p. 34, pi. xxvii. 



Adult male. Above black with a little metallic greenish gloss, 

 the feathers with lateral buff spots, producing a mottled appearance ; 

 scapulars more greyish towards the bases of the feathers, the spots 

 more tinged with, rufous ; wing-coverts more spotted with pale 

 fulvous ; some larger longitudinal spots of pale rufous-buff form 

 an indistinct nuchal collar ; primaries uniform deep brown, the 

 first five with a broad band of white across both webs, but often 

 not extending to the outer web of the first, this band situated about 

 midway between the tip and carpal joint; sometimes an indication 

 of the white band on the sixth ; secondaries with ])ale greyish bars 

 to the inner webs ; rectrices with iudistinct pale buff or greyish- 

 buff bars across both webs, and a subterminal white bar, often not 

 extending to the outer web of the lateral tail-feathers, and not 

 over the central pair ; a large V-shaped white mark across the 

 throat ; abdomen barred with buil or whitish buff and brown, the 

 brown bars becoming less numerous on the lower abdomen and 

 under tail-coverts. Total length about 9 to 9-5 inches, wing 7'G 

 to 8-25, tail 4-3 to 4-7. 



* I think there cannot be much doubt that Azara's Ihijaujasjieado (Apuut. 

 no. 313) and Vieillot's Caprimidgus variegatus (Nouv. Diet. x. p. 238, & Enc. 

 M6th. p. 539), as well as Merrem's C.jaspidcus, are referable to C. virginianus 



