624 CAPRIMULGID^, 



Adult. Bright rufous, speckled and vermiculafced with black, more 

 heavily on the top of the head ; lower abdomen and lower tail- 

 coverts lighter and without black vermiculations ; along the upper 

 wing and scapulars a series of white spots each surrounded by a 

 blackish line ; the same kind of spots on the upper abdomen, while 

 the lower abdomen and lower tail-coverts are tipped with pure silky 

 white ; primaries deep brown, the outer webs pale brown ; tail 

 bi'ight rufous, irregiilarly barred with black ; under wing-coverts 

 dark brown ; tail bright rufous, irregularly barred with black. 

 Total length about 9 inches, wing 6'^, tail 5. 



Youiuj birds are much paler and covered all over with large pale 

 spots, the white spots are less pure. 



Hah. Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Guiana. 



a. Imm. sk. Sarayacu, Ecuador (C. Buckley). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 b-e. Ad. sk. Sarayacu, Ecuador (C Buckley). Salvin-Godman & 



Sclater Colls. 



2. Nyctibius leucopterus. 



Caprimulgus leucopterus, Wied, Beitr. iii. p. 311 (1830). 



Nyctibius leucopterus, Des Murs, Icon. Orn. pis. 49, 50; Bunn. 



Syst. Uehers. ii. p. 377 (1856) ; Scl. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 130 (S.E. 



Brazil); Scl. 4- Salmi, Nomencl. A v. Neofr. p. 95 (1873). 

 Chordeiles leucopterus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 63 (18.50). 



Adult {male f). Above deep brown with a dull-coppery or some- 

 what oily gloss, feathers with black terminal spots, which are very 

 bold on the head and hind neck, so that these parts are almost 

 black, mottled with whitish, somewhat more on the hind neck; 

 upper tail-coverts uniform deep brownish black ; wing-coverts deep 

 blackish, along the middle of the upper wing a broad white band 

 caused by a series of the middle wing-coverts being pure white with 

 brown tips ; first primary uniform deep brown, the others with pale 

 brown spots to the outer webs ; secondaries deep brown, some with 

 indistinct pale spots ; rectrices deep brown, irregularly banded with 

 pale brown, paler from below ; lower parts brown, with two 

 streaks on the sides of the throat and a series of large terminal 

 spots on the breast black ; abdomen and lower tail-coverts strongly 

 mottled with whitish by reason of many irregular whitish bands, 

 most of the feathers with small blackish tips and narrrow blackish 

 shaft-lines ; under wing-coverts uniform blackish. Total length 

 about li-5 inches, wing 8-5, tail 5-4. "Bill black; iris orange" 

 (^Burmeister). 



Description from a specimen (probably from Bahia) in the 

 Berlepsch collection, the same as referred to by Sclater, P. Z. S. 

 1866, p. 130. 



A very distinct species, chiefly recognizable by its short tail. 



Hah, Coast-region of Brazil (Caravellos, Bahia). 



