J886.1 Cory on the Birds of the West Indies. '\\'\ 



is a triangular blackish-brown patch, speckled with rufous; sides of 

 the head brown, freckled with minute rufous spots; feathers of the 

 breast and abdomen ochraceous white, more or less tinged with 

 rufous, and having their centres dark brown, and their sides and 

 ends barred and mottled with the same color; the exposed ends of 

 the feathers being but little mottled give quite a light appearance 

 to the under plumage; lower part of the abdomen and under tail- 

 coverts dull pale rufous, the feathers of the latter with dark mark- 

 ings along their shafts; sides under the wings dull rufous narrowly 

 barred with dark brown ; under wing-coverts brown mottled with 

 rufous; tarsi clothed in front with rufous brown feathers; the bill 

 is light brown, black at the point, and having very strong bristles, 

 some of which are nearly two inches in length, and furnished with 

 lateral filaments; feet brown. Length about ii^ inches ; wing 7^ ; 

 tail 5I ; tarsus i." (Lawr. 1. c. orig. descr.) 

 Habitat. Cuba. 



Genus Stenopsis Cassin. 

 Stenofsis Cassin, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1851, p. 179. 



Stenopsis cayennensis (Gmel.). 



Caprimulgiis cayennensis Gmel. Syst. Nat. I, p. 1031 (17SS). — Cab. in 



Schomb. Guiana, III, p. 710 (1848). 

 Caprimulgns cayaniis Lath. Ind. Orn. II, p. 5S7 (1790). 

 Caprimulgus leopetcs ]mlt>. & Selby, 111. Orn. II, pi. 87. 

 Caprimulgns odontopteron Less. Rev. Zool. 1839, P- ^^S- 

 Antrostomus cayennensis Bp. Consp. I, 61 (1850). 

 Stenopsis cayennensis Cassin, Pr. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila. 1S51, p. 179. — 



Cab. & Hein. Mus. Hein. Ill, p. 91. — Scl. Cat. Am. Bds. p. 280 



(1863).— Gray, Handl. Bds. I, p. 59 (1869).— Scl. & Sal v. Nom. 



Avium Neotr. p. 96 (1S73) (Martinique). — Cory, List Bds. W. I. p. 



16 (18S5). 



Sp. Char. Male: — Upper surface a mixture of gray, rufous, dark brown 

 and white, the feathers mottled and edged with the different colors; 

 the two central tail-feathers gray, curiously marked with dark brown, 

 rest of the tail-feathers white, edged with brown on the outer webs, 

 and banded near the centre, the brown lacking on the outer web of 

 the outer feather; under surface of tail-feathers white, showing a 

 band of brown across the centre; throat and abdomen white; breast 

 heavily mottled with rufous; wings dark brown, the coverts mottled 

 with rufous and blotches of white; a heavy band of white crossing 

 the middle of the primaries. 



Female. — Entirely lacks the white markings on the wings and 

 tail ; the general plumage is dull brown, variously marked with 



