260 NELSON, Wew North American Birds. july 
Nyctibius jamaicensis mexicanus, subsp. nov. Mexican 
GOATSUCKER. 
Type, No. 158535, @ ad., U. S. Nat. Mus., Biological Survey Collection. 
Metlaltoyuca, Puebla, Mexico, January 26, 1898, E. A. Goldman. 
Distribution—Eastern coast region of Mexico north to northeastern 
Puebla. 
Subspecific characters.—Similar to WV. jamaicensis but decidedly larger 
and browner, this last character being specially marked on lésser wing- 
coverts; pale spots along outer border of primaries much duller gray in 
less vivid contrast to dark part of feathers. 
Measurements of tyfe.—Wing, 310; tail, 220; culmen, 29; tarsus, 16. 
General notes—An adult 2 from the same locality as the type 
measures, wing, 304; tail, 224; culmen, 26; tarsus, 14. An 
adult bird, sex unknown, but probably a male, from Mirador, Vera 
Cruz, measures: wing, 310; tail, 220; culmen, 24; tarsus, 15. 
A specimen from the island of Jamaica and representing typical 
LV. jamaicensis measures: wing, 275; tail, 186; culmen, 23; tar- 
Sus, 13. 
Antrostomus oaxace, sp. nov. Oaxaca WHIPPOORWILL. 
Type, No. 154735, 2 ad., U. S. Nat. Mus., Biological Survey Collection. 
Near City of Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico, August 14, 1894, E. W. Nelson and 
E. A. Goldman. 
Distribution.—Sierra Madre bordering southern part of Mexican table- 
land from Michoacan through Oaxaca to adjacent part of Chiapas. 
Specific characters—Most closely related to A. macromystax but back 
darker; black spots on scapulars larger; feathers of nape rather coarsely 
barréd with black and reddish brown; middle of back and rump heavily 
streaked with black and spotted and mottled with reddish and grayish 
brown; below entire breast and sides of body blackish coarsely marked 
with irregular spots of grayish and reddish brown; the fine maculation 
of back and breast characteristic of A. macromystax almost wholly replaced 
in this species by coarser spotting, rendering the two easily separable. 
Dimensions of type-—Wing, 162; tail, 119; culmen, 14; tarsus, 18. 
1 This species has been recorded from Mazatlan, Sinaloa, and thence south- 
ward on the Pacific Coast of Mexico, and the birds found there probably 
belong to the present subspecies, but I have seen no specimens from that re- 
gion, so cannot be certain. 
