15. CnORDEILES. 615 



Caprimulgus labeculatus, Jard. Ann. Sr Mar/. N. II. 1846, p. 118. 



Clioi-deiles labeculatus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 63 (1850). 



Chordeiles sapiti, Bp. Consp. i. p. 63 (1850; ex Natt. MS.) ; Cab. ^ 



Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 86 (1860). 

 Caprimukrus hiruudinaceus, SpLv, Av. Bras. ii. p. 2, pi. iii. fiff. 1 



(1825). ° 



Chordeiles pminosus, Burm. (nee Tsch.) Siid. Uebers. ii. p. 394 



(1856). 

 Caprimulgus steuopterus, Pelz. Orn. Bras. p. 14, note (1868). 



In general appearance similar to pale brown examples of C. vir- 

 giniaims. Above blackish brown, the feathers laterally spotted 

 with buff, brownish, or rufous-brownish, more brownish on the 

 top of the head and on the scapulars ; primaries deep brown, the 

 first four, or sometimes five, crossed by a white bar, all the prima- 

 ries above tlie white band and the secondaries throughout more or 

 less heavily spotted with rufous ; rectrices, except the central pair, 

 with a distinct subterminal bar of white ; lower parts buff, barred 

 with brown ; a large white patch across the throat and up to the 

 chin, with a more or less distinct rufous patch below it ; breast 

 mottled with greyish. Total length about 8 inches, wing 6-1 to 

 6*5, tail 3-S, tarsus 0-55. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but without white subterminal 

 bar to the rectrices, spots on the primaries more or less washed 

 with rufous or buff. 



Toimg birds are very pale, with all the markings less developed, 

 especially the dark ones, which are small and not so pronounced. 



Ilah. South America except the most southern parts. 



a. 5 ad. sk. I. of Tobago (Kirk). Jardine Coll. (Type 



of C labecidatus, Jard.) 



b-e. d; f, ff. 2 I- of Tobago (Kirk). Jardine CoU. 



ad. sk. 



h. cS juv. sk. Cartagena, Colombia. Sclater Coll. 



t. (S ad. sk. Caracas, Venezuela {Goering). Sclater Coll. 



k. S ; I, m. 5 ad. Aunai, Brit. Guiana, April Salvin-C4odman Coll. 



sk. {H. Whitely). 



n. $ ad. sk. Quonga, Brit. Guiana, Oct. 20 Salvin-Godman Coll. 



{H. Whitely). 

 0, p, q. c? ad. sk. Cayenne. 



r, s. (S ad. sk. Brazil. Salvin-Godman and 



Sclater CoUs. 



t, u. S ad. sk. Peruambueo ( W. A. Forbes). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



V. (S ad. ; w. $ Bahia, Brazil. Salvin-Godman and 



imm. sk. Tweeddale Colls, 



a". cJ ad. sk. BarradoRioXegro(A'«/i'e/-er). Sclater Coll. 



y. $ ad. sk. Forte do Rio Branco, Dec. 17 Sclater Coll. 



{Natterer^. 



2, a'. 5 ad. sk. Santa Fe, Minas Geraes, Bra- Sclater and Salvin- 



zil (Bof/ers). Godmau Colls. 



b'. 5 ad. st. South America. Purchased. 



c'. Ad. sk. Guayaq^uil {Jameso7i). Jardine Coll, 



