Descriptions of JVew Species of Birds. 167 



Chordeiles texensis. 



"Chordeiles brasilianus, Gm." — Lawrence Ann. Lye. V. p. 114. 



" sapiti, Bonap.''' — Cassin, Birds of Cat. & Tex., Vol. I. 



p. 238. 



If ale. — Upper plumage umber-brown closely mottled with 

 cinereous white and pale rufous, an irregular band of these 

 colors on the hind neck ; a whitish line extends over the eye ; 

 quills dark umber-brown, the first four primaries are crossed 

 by a bar of white at about two thirds the distance from the 

 shoulder to their ends ; above this bar on the primaries marked 

 with it, and on the others for their entire length, as well as on all 

 the secondaries, are small irregular rufous spots, arranged gene- 

 rally in pairs one on each side of the shaft; inner wing coverts 

 and axillars pale rufous, barred with brown ; tail brownish- 

 black with a subterminal band of white crossing all except the 

 two central feathers ; it is also crossed with smaller irrejrular 

 bands of pale rufous, the two central feathers have the bars 

 broader and mottled with cinereous ; under tail coverts pale 

 rufous ; throat with a large triangular spot of pure white ; 

 under plumage pale rufous or fulvous with narrow transverse 

 bars of brown ; bill black ; legs and feet pale yellowish-brown. 



Female. — More marked with rufous, which is of a deeper 

 color on the under plumage than in the male; there is no 

 white bar on the tail ; the white markings on the throat and 

 wings are tinged with rufous. 



Length of male, 8i inches ; wing, 6f in, ; tail, 3| in. ; tar- 

 sus, T 9 e in. ; middle toe and nail, ff in. 



Female, length, 8f inches; wing, 7 in. ; tail, 4| in. 



Habitat — Texas. 



