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"^HORDEILES VIRGINIANUS VIRGINIANUS (Gmelln). 



[Caprimulgus] virginianus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., vol. 1, pt. 2, 1789, p. 1028 

 (Virginia) (based on: [Caprimulgus] europceus p.[=']Caprimulgus 

 minor americanus, Linn^us, Syst. Nat., ed. 12, vol. 1, 1766, p. 346; 

 Hwipperiwill, Kalm, Resa Norra Amer., vol. 3, 1761, p. 93 [Racoon, Nevf 

 Jersey] ; Caprimulgus virginianus, Brisson, Ornith., vol. 2, 1760, p. 

 477 [Virginia] ; Whip-poor-will, Caprimulgus minor Americanus, 

 Catesby, Nat. Hist. Carolina, Florida, and Bahama Islands, vol. 2, 

 Appendix, 1743, p. 16, pi. 16 [Virginia] ; Whip-poor-will, Edwabds, Nat. 

 Hist. Birds, vol. 2, 1747, p. 63, pi. 63 [Virginia] ; Le Whip-i)our-will, 

 BuFFON, Hist. Nat. des Oiseaux [orig. ed.], vol. 6, 1779, p. 534 [Vir- 

 ginia] ; Longwinged Goatsucker, Pennant, Arctic Zool., vol. 2, 1785, p. 

 436 [excl. pi. IS], No. 337 [Charleston, South Carolina, to Henly House, 

 Albany River, Ontario] ; Virginia Goatsucker, Latham, Gen. Synop. 

 Birds, vol. 2, pt. 2, 1783, p. 595 [Virginia]). 



Caprimulgus popctuc Vieillot, Ois. Amer. Sept., vol. 1, 1807, p. 56, pi. 24 

 (Nova Scotia). 



Caprimulgus americanus Wilson, Amer. Ornith., vol. 5, 1812, p. 65, pi. 40 

 (eastern Pennsylvania) (nee Caprimulgus americanus Linn^^us, 1758, 

 qui Siphonorhis americanus Auct). 



Caprimulgus variegatus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., 2d ed., vol. 10, 

 1817, p. 238 (Paraguay). 



Clapritnulgus]. jaspideus Mebrem, in Erseh und Gruber, Allgem. Eneycl. 

 Wissensch. und Kiinste, sec. 1, vol. 15, 1826, p. 148 (Paraguay). 



Chat's, suhsp. — Size large ; upper parts black or blackish, the light 

 markings sparse or only moderately numerous, and mostly whitish 

 or buffy, with very little tawny ; general tone of lower surface rela- 

 tively dark, the dark areas of anterior portion blackish, the posterior 

 part slightly washed with cream color oi' buff, and heavily barred 

 with blackish. 



Description. — Adult male. No. 38895, Museum Comparative Zool- 

 ogy, Pocantico, New York, May 19, 1891 ; W. E. D. Scott ; original 

 number, 11425. Upper surface blackish clove brown, irregularly 

 spotted with brownish white, cream white, cream color, cream buff, 

 buff, ochraceous buff, and ochraceous, these markings most numerous 

 on cervix, largest on scapulars (which are also much mottled with 

 grayish and buffy on their subterminal unexposed portions), least 

 frequent on pileum and back, which are almost unmarked, and in the 

 form of irregular bars on the upper tail-coverts; tail grayish clove 

 brown, crossed by about seven (none of which is terminal) irregular 

 and broken bars of brownish white, buffy white, and pale brown, 

 these bars widest on the middle pair of rectrices, and by a broad sub- 

 terminal band of white on all but the two middle feathers; wing- 

 quills dark brown, like the tail, but slightly darker, the outer six 

 primaries crossed by a broad band of pure white posteriorly (dis- 

 tally) to the tip of the ninth primary (counting from the outermost) ; 

 secondaries and inner primaries narrowly tipped with pale brown- 

 j«h; outer half or so of the inner webs of the secondaries with 



