16. NTCTIPEOGXE. 17. PODAGER. 619 



IG. NYCTIPROGNE. 



Type. 



Nyctiprog-ne, Bp. C. S. 0. p. 3o (1854) N. leuL-opviria. 



Podochffites, Scl. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 135 N. leiicopygia. 



The very small bill with the hidden nostrils is characteristic of 

 this form. 



Rnnije. Brazil and Cayenne, 



1. Nyctiprogne leucopygia. 



Caprimulgrus leucopygus, Spix, Av. Bras. ii. p. 3, pi. iii. (1823). 

 Chordeiles minuturJ, Bp. Consp. i. p. 63 (1850; e.v Xatt. MS.). 

 Chordeiles leucopygus, Bunn. Syst. Ueb. ii. p. 393 (1856) ; Gray, 



Hand-l. i. p. 62 "(1869). 

 Lurocalis leucopygus, Cas,';. Cat. Caprim. (1851). 

 Nyctiprogne leucopygia, Bj). C. S. O. p. 35 (1854) ; Scl. .§• Sah: 



' Nome7icl. Ai\ Neutr. p. 96 (1873). 

 Podochfetes leucopygus, Scl. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 135. 



Adult. Above deep brown, finely barred with reddish brown ; 

 centres of the feathers uniform ; scapulai's with light outer edges; 

 primaries deep brown, with pale rufous spots to the edges of the 

 outer and inner webs ; central reetrices brown variegated with pale 

 rufous, three outer pairs with distinct, fourth pair with indistinct 

 white bars, confined to outer web on the outermost pair ; chin and 

 throat pale rufous, finely barred with black ; breast and abdomen 

 deep brown, with pale bars of a brownish buff, becoming more and 

 more white towards the lower tail-coverts. Total length about 

 8 inches, wing 6, tail 4*5, tarsus 0'5. 



Hah. Brazil and Caj-enne, 



a. S fitl- sk. Matto Grosso, Brazil, Nov. {Natfercr). Selater Coll. 



b. Ad. sk. Brazil. Selater Coll. 



17. PODAGER. 



Type. 

 Podager, Wagl. Isis, 1832, p. 277 P. nacunda. 



Range. That of the single species. 



1. Podager nacunda. 



Nacimda, Azara, Apunt. no. 312 (1805). 



Caprimulgus nacunda, Fi«7/. Nouv. Diet. x. p. 240 (1817; ex Azara) ; 



Eoeniy-Warth. J.f. O. 1868, p. 372 (nididc). 

 Caprimulgus campestris, Licht. Verz. Duubl. p. 59 (1823 ; San 



Paulo). 

 Caprimulgus diurnus, Tvmm. PL Col. 182 (1823) ; Wiecl, Beifr. iii 



p. 326 (1830). 

 Proithera diurnis, Swains. Class. B. ii. p. 339 (1837). 

 Podager nacunda. Cab. in Schomb. Guiana, iii. p. 711 (1848) ; Bp. 



Consp. \.^. 63 (1850); Bnrm. J.f. O. 1853, p. 170; id. St/sf. 



Ueb. Th. Bras. ii. p. 400 (1856) ; id. La-Plata Reise, ii. p. 449 



(1861) ; Cab. Sf Heine, Mus. Hein. iii. p. 88 (1860) ; Scl. Cat. 



