iS86.} Cory oh flic Birds of the West Indies. -541 



Chordeiles virg-inianits Go&s^, Bds. Jam. p. 33 (1847). — Lemb. Aves.Cuba 

 p. 51 (1S50) (?).— SuNDEV. Oefv. K. Vet. Akad. For. 1S69, p. 600 (.?)'. 

 —Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 16 (1SS5). 



Chordeiles fopetuc var. fopetnc Bd. Bwr. & Ridgvv. Hist. N. Am. Bds. II. 

 p. 401 (1S74) (Greater Antilles). 



I have never seen a specimen of C. virginlaruis from the West 

 Indies; several authors have recorded it, but it is possible that 

 they may have mistaken C. minor for this species. 



Genus Antrostomus Gould. 



Antrostomus "Gould, Icones Avium, 1838." 



Antrostomus rufus (Bodd.). 



Cafrimulgus rufus "Bodd. et Gmel. ex PI. Enl. p. 735." 

 Antrostomus rufus Cassin, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. V, p. 183. — 



ScL. P. Z. S., 1866, p. 136.— Gray, Handl. Bds. I, p. 59 (1869).— 



ScL. & Salv. Nom. Avium Neotr. p. 96 (1873). — Cory, List Bds. 



W. I. p. 16 (1885). 

 Antrostomus rutilus Burm. Syst. Ueb. II, p. 385. — Allen, Bull. Nutt. 



Orn. Club, V, p. 169 (1880). 



Sp. Char. — Upper surface mottled and varied with brown and black ; the 

 terminal portions of the feathers on the head with broad patches of 

 black in the centre of th3 feathers; underparts darkening on the 

 breast, but becoming heavily tinged with rufous on the abdomen and 

 crissum; primaries broadly blotched with light rufous, heaviest on 

 the outer webs ; a large blotch of white on the terminal portion of 

 the inner web of the outer tail-feather, showing upon both webs of 

 the second and third feathers ; central tail-feathers dark brown, 

 heavily mottled with rufous ; feet black. In general appearance the 

 bird is smaller and much darker than A. carolinensis. 

 Length, 10.50; wing, 7.50; tail, 5; tarsus, .60. 

 Recorded from Santa Lucia, W. I. 



Antrostomus carolinensis (Gmei..). 



Cafrimulgus carolinensis Gmel. Syst. Nat. I, p. 1028 (178S). — D'Orb. in 

 La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, Ois. p. 96 (1840). 



Antrostomus carolinensis GuNDL. Repert. Fisico-Nat. Cuba, I, p. 2S3 

 (1865) ; ib. J. f. O. 1874, p. 120 (Cuba).— ScL. P. Z. S. 1866, p. 136 

 (Jamaica). — Gundl. Anal. Soc. Esp. Hist. Nat. VII, p. 201 (1S78) 

 (Porto Rico). — A. & E. Newton, Handb. Jamaica, p. 109 (i8Si). — 



