T,AO Cory o?/ the Birds of the West Indies. [July 



roundish rings. On the breast, clay-coloured feathers with black 

 shafts and black spots. Sides, bellj, and vent, white with black 

 shafts. A line of black feathers down the middle of the back; rumd 

 ashy, with narrow black shafts. On shoulders a mixtiu-e of ash 

 and clay-colour, with black shafts. Plumage very loose. Weight, 

 3 oz., 7 sc." (GossE, from Robinson's MSS., Bds. Jam. pp. 49, 

 50. 1847.) 

 Habitat. Jamaica. 



This is a very doubtful species, not generally recognized by 

 authors. Probably the same as N. jajuaiccnsis. 



Genus Chordeiles Swains. 



Chordcilcs Swainson, Fauna Bor. Amer. II, p. 496 (1S31). 



^Chordeiles minor Cab. 



Chordeiles minor Cab. J. f. O. 1S56, p. 5. — ScL. Cat. Am. Bds. p. 279 

 (1S62). — Albrecht, J. f. O. 1S62. p. 199. — March, Pr. Acad. Nat. 

 Sci. Phila. 1863, p. 2S6. — ScL. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 96 

 (1873)-— GuNDL. J. f. O. 1S74, p. 117; ib. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. 

 VII, p. 202 (1878). — A. & E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 109 

 (18S1).— Cory, Bds. Bahama I. p. 106 (1880); ib. Bds. Haiti & San 

 Domingo, p. 85 (18S5) ; ib. List Bds. W.I. p. 16 (1885). 



Chordeiles oii/idlachiil^AWR. Ann. Lye. N. Y. VI, p. 165 (1S56). 



Chordeiles fofietue Bryant, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. loS (1859). 

 — GuNDL. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 2S2 (1865) ; ib. J. f. O. 

 1874, p. 117. 



Chordeiles gicndlachi Brewer, Pr. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. VII, p. 306 (i860). 



Chordeiles popettte var. minor Bd. Bwr. & Ridgw. Hist. N. Am. Bds. II, 

 p. 400 (1S74). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Above dark brown, variegated with white and tawny ; 

 underparts tawny, banded with brown; throat tawny, becoming 

 whitish on the breast; a white line from sides of throat to chin ; 

 first two primaries with a spot on the inner web, and the second and 

 third with a band of white ; edge of carpus white. 



The female differs from the male by having the sides of the throat 

 rufous instead of white. 



Length, 8.25; wing, 7 ; tail, 4; tarsus, .50; bill,.. 20. 



Habitat. Antilles. 



Chordeiles virginianus (Briss.). 



Caprimnlgus virginianus Brisson, Orn. p. 477 (1760). — Gmel. Syst. 

 Nat. I, ii, 1028 (1788). 



