'i'lS Cory oh the Birds of the West Indies. [J"ly 



Pachyrhytichus atterriviics Lafr. Rev. Zool. 1846, p. 320. 

 Pachyrhamfhns nigrescens Cab. Orn. Not. I, p. 241. — Bp. Consp. I, p 



180 (1850). 

 Pachyrhamphtis niger ScL. P. Z. S. 1857, P- 7^- 

 Platypsaris nigra ScL. P. Z. S. 1861, p. 77. — Albrecht, J. f. O. 1862, p. 



207. 

 Hadrostoinus niger Cab. & Heine, Mus. Hein. II, p. 85 (1859). — ScL. 



Cat. Am. Bds. p. 239 (1S62).— March, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1863, 



p. 290. — ScL. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 56 (1S73). — A. & E. 



Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. loS (1881). — Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 



16 (18S5). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Top of the head black, shading into dark brown, with 

 a blackish gloss on the back; throat, breast and belly smoke-color; 

 a faint tinge of rufous on the flanks; wings and tail dark brown, 

 almost black ; tertials and some of the wing-coverts heavily marked 

 with white, forming a partially concealed white patch at the junc- 

 tion of the wing and back. 



Female: — Top of the head dark brown ; a malar stripe of light 

 brown ; throat brownish white, rest of underparts dull white; cris- 

 sum brownish olive ; back and rump dark slate-color; wings and 

 tail brown, pale rufous on the inner webs of the primaries ; outer 

 webs of secondaries, and some of the inner primaries, showing dull 

 rufous brown. 



Length (skin), 7.20; wing, 4; tail, 3.50; tarsus, .85; bill, .55. 

 Habitat. Jamaica. 



Family CAPRIMULGID.^. 



Genus Nyctibius Vieill. 

 Nyctihiiis Vieillot, Analyse, p. 38 (1806). 



Nyctibius jamaicensis (Gmel.). 



Caprimulgits ja?naicensis Gmki.. Syst. Nat. I, p. 1029 (178S).— Denny, P. 



Z. S. 1847, p. 38. 

 Nyctibius jamaicensis GossE, Bds. Jam. p. 41 (1847). — ^P- Consp. I, p. 



58 (1850).— ScL. P. Z. S. 1S61, p. 77 ; ib. Cat. Am. Bds. p. 278 (1862). 



— Albrecht, J. f. O. 1862, p. 199.— March, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. 



Phila. 1863, p. 286.— Gray, Handl. Bds. I, p. 56 (1869).— ScL. & 



Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 95 (1873).— A. & E. Newton, Ilandb. 



Jamaica, p. 108 (18S1).— Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 16 (1885). 



Sp. Char. Male: — General plumage grayish, heavily marked, streaked, 

 and blotched with brown and white ; some of the feathers sparsely 



