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In the Dominican Republic Abbott examined a bird, badly 

 mounted, in a drug store in Puerto Plata, and heard the queer call 

 of the Don Juan morning and evening in May near Hondo in the 

 mountains. They were reported to be local in distribution, and were 

 said to be found near San Francisco de Macoris. 



Hartert writes us that there is an adult in the Tring Museum taken 

 by Kaempfer near Tiibano in October, 1923. 



This group of birds is found elsewhere in the Greater Antilles 

 only in Jamaica. It is true that Hartlaub 91 says that Herzog von 

 Wiirttemberg secured one in Cuba, but there is no other record for 

 that island and there is reason to believe that this individual was 

 obtained elsewhere, possibly in Haiti where Wiirttemberg traveled 

 extensively. 



The Don Juan or chat huant is the largest of the goatsuckerlike 

 birds on the island and, though superficially like the others, through 

 possession of powder downs and certain anatomical peculiarities, is 

 segregated in a family distinct from the Caprimulgidae. The form 

 of Hispaniola is approximately 450 mm. in length, with long tail, 

 fairly heavy body, and a tremendous mouth that measures approxi- 

 mately 45 mm. across the gape and opens sufficiently to engulf a 

 small mango. The bird is gray above, streaked with black and 

 mottled with whitish, and the same color below, with black spots 

 on the breast. 



Family CAPRIMULGIDAE 92 

 Subfamily Caprimulginae 



ANTROSTOMUS CAROLINENSIS (Ginclin) 

 CHUCK-WILL'S-WIDOW, PITANGUA, DON JUAN 



Caprimulgus carolinensis Gmelin, Syst. Nat., vol. 1, pt. 2, 1789, p. 102S 

 (Carolina.) 



? Caprimulgus rufus, Ritter, Naturh. Reis. Westind. Insel Hayti, 1836, p. 

 156 (specimen). 



Caprimulgus carolinensis, Kaempfer, Journ. fur Ornith., 1924, p. 182 (Moca). 



Androstomus carolinensis, Tippenhauer, Die Insel Haiti, 1892, pp. 320, 321 

 (listed). 



Antrostomus carolinensis, Cory, Bull, Nuttall Ornith. Club, 1881, p. 153 (spec- 

 imens) ; Birds Haiti and San Domingo, July, 1S84, pp. 84-85 (Petionville) ; Cat. 

 West Indian Birds, 1892, p. 105 (Haiti, Dominican Republic). — Cherrie, Field 

 Columbian Mus., Ornith. ser., vol. 1, 1896, p. 18, (Catarrey, specimen). — Ver- 



111 Naumannia, 1852, pt. 2, p. 54. 



92 In the Conspectus Avium, vol. 1, 1850, p. 61 Bonaparte has the following description : 

 "Antrostomus dominions, Bp. Mus. Lugd. ox Insula S. Dominici. Similis praecedenti, 

 [i. e. Antrostomus vociferus] sed obscurior, magis et pulcherrime variegatus." In the 

 Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., vol. 16, 1892, p. 535, Doctor Hartert writes " I have examined 

 the types of this supposed species in the Leyden Museum ; they are said to be from 

 Haiti, but, in my opinion, are C. pectoralis with wrong locality." Caprimulgus pectc- 

 ralis is a species of South Africa. 



