250 BULLETIN 15 5, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM 



rectrices broadly white, while in the female they are buff. The 

 species is distinguished from any of the other goatsuckers by having 

 lateral filaments on the long bristles that project about the mouth. 



ANTROSTOMUS CUBANENSIS EKMANI Lonnber* 

 HISPANIOLAN GOATSUCKER, PITANGUA 



Antrostomus ekmwni Lonnbekg, Ark. for Zool., vol. 20 B, no. 6, March 18, 

 1929, p. 1, fig. 1 (Jeremie, Haiti) .— Lonnberg, Fauna och Flora, 1929, pp. 102- 

 103, fig. 1 (specimen, eggs). 



? Caprvmulgus carolinensls (part), Kaempfeb, Journ. fur Ornith., 1924, p. 

 182 (notes on nest). 



Antrostomus, sp. ? Bond, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, vol. 80, 1928, 

 p. 521 (mentioned). 



Known locally in the Dominican Republic, and Haiti ; resident. 



This peculiar bird is known at present from a specimen secured 

 by W. L. Abbott February 23, 1921 at Mao, D. R., in the valley 

 of the Yaqui del Norte, one found byKaempfer near La Vega, August 

 2, 1922, and by a third, the type of the race, taken by Ekman near 

 Jeremie in July, 1928. (PL 20.) The second specimen Hartert in- 

 forms us was found dead in such condition that it could be preserved 

 only by leaving most of the bones in the skin. Abbott writes that 

 his bird was found resting on a branch near the ground in an area 

 of the dense growth characteristic of the arid region there. Pos- 

 sibly this form was included among the goatsuckers seen but not 

 collected by Abbott near Hondo below Constanza. 



E. L. Ekman, the botanist, secured the type of this race at 1500 

 meters altitude at the Habitation Quillaud near Trou des Roseaux 

 in the Massif de la Hotte June 27, 1928. The bird was flushed from 

 a nest on the ground in which there were two eggs, light greenish 

 white in color spotted with brown. 



It is of interest to note that in a collection of water-color draw- 

 ings of birds made by M. de Rabie near the close of the eighteenth 

 century there is an excellent illustration of the present bird, easily 

 recognized by size and color, particularly by the plain buff outer 

 margins of the distal ends of the rectrices. The drawing in question 

 is labelled peut-on voir and is indicated as made " au Cap " ( = Cap- 

 Haitien). It is number 14 in the portfolio in question which has 

 been examined through the courtesy of Wheldon and Wesley of Lon- 

 don. There is no other mention of it in the older records from Haiti 

 unless possibly this may be the Caprimulgus rufus listed by Ritter. 1 



Kaempfer in his notes on " Caprimulgus carolinensis " (see refer- 

 ence above) writes "die Eier dieses Vogels sollen nach Berichten von 

 Eingeborenen weiss mit braunen Punkten sein und das Nest sich auf 



1 (Naturh. Reis. Westind. Insel Hayti, 1836, p. 156) whose Identity Is not certain but 

 which is more probably the chuck-will's-widow. 



