298 NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS. 



Gents ANTROSTOMUS Gould. (Page 297, pi. LXXXYII., fig. 1 ; pi. 

 LXXXVIII., fig. 1.) 



Species. 



Common Characters. — Upper parts brownish and grayish, much mottled and 

 otherwise varied with blackish ; outer webs of quills spotted with ochraeeous, but 

 (in North American species) without any white spot ; lower parts pale fulvous or 

 buffy, mottled or bari-ed with dusky ; throat with a white, ochraeeous, or buflfy 

 transverse patch; tail of male with white on terminal portion of inner webs. 



a}. Bristles of gape with lateral filaments. 



Adult male: Terminal third, or more, of three outer tail-feathers white, 

 or buify. Adult female : Outer tail-feathers without any white or buffy 

 patch; length about 11.00-12.00, wing 8.70-8.90, tail 6.25-G30. Uc/gs 

 deposited on ground or dead leaves in woods, 1.41 X 101, P-'lo pinkish 

 buff, marbled with pale brown and lilac-gray. JLtb. Southern Atlantic 

 and Gulf States and lower Mississippi Valley, north to Virginia and 



southern Illinois 416. A. carolinensis (Gjiel.). Chnck-will's-widow. 



fl". Bristles of gape without lateral filaments. 



b\ Nostrils large, opening verticallj' from out a nearly circular tubular case ; 

 rictal bristles very largo and much lengthened, extending nearly half 

 their length beyond tip of bill; top of head with ground-color distinctly 

 brownish, the whole surface marked with broad, serrate-edged streaks 

 of black ; adult males with white tail-patches occupying less than ter- 

 minal third of three or four outer feathers, and decreasing in extent 

 from exterior feather, 

 c". "Wing 7.00, or more; four outer tail-feathers tipped with white in male, 

 three outer ones ti]iped with buff in female; length about 10.50- 

 11.00, wing 7.00-7.25, tail 5.50-5.70, longer rictal bristles 1.80-2.00. 



JIab. Cuba. 



A. cubanensis Lawr. Cuban Whippoorwill.' 



c'. AYing less than 7.00 ; three outer tail-feathers tipped with white in 



male, with buff in female; length about 10.00, wing fi.00-G.70, tail 



5.20-5.35, longer rictal bristles about 1.20-1.40. I/nb. Hastern Mexico 



(Mirador, La Parada, etc.). 



A. salvini (IIahtkrt). Mexican Whippoorwill.' 

 i'. Nostrils small, inconspicuous, not distinctly raised above general level of 

 base of bill ; rictal bristles much weaker, reaching less than half their 

 length beyond tip of bill ; top of head more or less distinctl}' grayish, 

 narrowly streaked laterally, and very broadly streaked medially', with 

 black ; adult male with white tail-patch occupj-ing more than terminal 



> Anirottomut ciibancntit LAWn., Ann. Lyo. N. Y. vii. Mft.v, I860, 200. 



> Caprimuljut lalvM IIartcrt, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xvi. ISU2, 568. 



