BIkDS— CAPRIMUIGIDAE — CHORDEILES POPETUE. 151 



CHOEDEILES POPETUE. 



Night HaAPk ; Bull Bat. 



Caprimulgus popetue, Vieillot, Ois. Am. Sept. I, 1807, 5G ; pi. xxiv. (9). — Bonap. Obs. Wilson, 1825, 177, from 

 J. A.N. So. Phila. VI. 



Caprimulgus americanus, Wilson, V, 1812, 65 ; pi. cxI. f. 1, 2. 



ChordeiUs americanus, De, Kat, N. Y. Zool. II, 1844, 34 ; pi. xxvii. 



Caprimulgus virginiamis, Brisson, II, 1760,477. (In part only.) — Bonap. Synopsis, 62. — Acn. Orn. Biog. II, 

 1834,273; pi. 147. 



Caprimulgus (Clwrdciles) virginiunus, Sw. F. Bor. Am. II, 1831, 62. 



Chordeiles virginianus, Bon. List. 1838.— Aun. Birds Am. I, 1840, 159 ; pi. 43.— Cassik, 111. I, 1855, 238 New- 

 berry, Zool. Cal. and Oregon Route, 79; Rep. P. R, R. Surv. VI, 1857. 



Long-Miinged goat-sucker. Pennant, Arctic Zool. II, 1785, 337. 



Sp. Ch. — Male, above greenish black, with but little mottling on the head and back. Wing coverts varied with grayish ; 

 scapulars with yellowish rufous. A nuchal band of fine gray mottling, behind which is another coarser one of rufous spots. 

 A white V-shaped mark on the throat ; behind this a collar of pale rufous blotches, and another on the breast of grayish 

 mottling. Under parts banded transversely with dull yellowish or reddish white and brown. Wing quills quite uniformly 

 brown. The five outer primaries with a white blotch midway between the tip and carpal joint, not extending on the outer web 

 of the outer quill. Tail with a terminal white patch. 



Female, without the caudal white patch, the white of the throat mixed with reddish. Length of male, 9,50 ; v.ing, 8.20. 



Hab. — North America generally. 



Specimen from Pennsyvania, (1605.) — Wings long and acutely pointed; within an inch 

 as long (measured from the carpal joint) as the body itself. First quill longest, the rest 

 successively shorter. Tail acutely emarginate ; the first outer feather very little longer than the 

 second ; the remaining ones successively shorter, until the two middle ones are about three 

 quarters of an inch shorter than the exterior. Bill short ; the bristles simple. 



The prevailing color of the upper parts of this species is a lustrous greenish black, with a 

 little mottling of pale rusty on the head, back, and scapulars, and of gray on the wing coverts. 

 At first sight the crown seems to have but little mottling, this being apparently confined to 

 a median line of yellowish rusty edging to the feathers. On raising the ends of these, however, 

 they are found to be more blotched towards their bases. On the nape the blotches are more 

 terminal and of a grayish color, forming an indistinct transverse band. Here they are quite 

 small, and confined to the exterior or extremity of the feathers. Immediately succeeding this, 

 however^ is a second indistinct transverse band in which the blotches are much larger, occupy- 

 ing the median line of the feather, and of a more rusty hue. On the middle of the back again 

 the blotches are even grayer and less conspicuous than on the nape, while the blotches on the 

 scapulars are larger and more rusty. The wing coverts are finely mottled with grayish, 

 especially the innermost ones. The primary coverts have comparatively few blotches. 



The sides of the head and lower jaw are like the top, only more blotched, and with yellowish 

 rusty. There is a pure white V-shaped mark on the throat, commenoing about a quarter of an 

 inch behind the base of the lower mandible, the acute angle anterior, the branches curving 

 back on each side to a point beneath and posterior to the eye. The angle of this mark is filled 

 up with rusty-tipped black feathers. Behind it on the upper part of the breast, and extending 

 to the tail, the feathers begin to be banded transversely several times on their terminal half 

 with dark brown and dirty yellowish white, much less conspicuous on the upper part of the 

 breast and lower throat, where the predominant color of the feathers is dark brown, with the 

 ends grayish. 



The quills are throughout of a uniform dark brown, with an obscure lightening on the inner 

 edges of the innermost primaries towards the ends. The ends of the secondaries are quite 



