260 JVotes on some Cuban Birds, 



this family are usually the largest, but I have given tliera as 

 marked. 



Remar'ks. — This small species is much like G. gnoma, from 

 California, the spots on the head of siju are however much 

 smaller and whiter, and the imder plumage more rufous. 



7, AntrostoiMus €ubane]i$i§, nov. sp. 



Caprimidgus vociferus, D'Orbig. (R. de la Sagra), Hist. Cuba, 1840, 

 p. 98; Lemb. Aves Isl. Cub. 1850, Catal. 

 p. 130. 



Antrostoinus voclferus^ Gund. Journ. f. Orn. Jan. 1850, p. 6. 



Adult male. Upper plumage dark ash, minutely mottled with dull 

 rufous and grey, the feathers conspicuously marked with longitudinal 

 stripes of black in their centres; a line extends from the bill over the 

 eye and along the crown of greyish white, tinged with pale rufous and 

 intermixed with black ; the tertiarics ochraceous-white, beautifully varie- 

 gated with black, and having near the end of each feather an irregular 

 patch of velvety black; wing-coverts the same color as the back, some 

 of them marked near their ends, with ochraceous spots ; primaries dark- 

 reddish-brown sprinkled with dull rufous and grey at their ends, and 

 having bright rufous spots arranged regularly on their outer webs, 

 there are spots also on their inner webs, more obscure in color and 

 assuming a mottled form ; secondaries dark brown, mottled with grey 

 on the outer webs, and tinged with rufous on the inner ; tail very full, 

 of a fine deep brown, the two central tail feathers closely banded with 

 curving bars of mottled grey and pale rufous, the next feather on 

 each side, with the bars dull rufous, and rather narrowly tipped with 

 ochraceous-white, less in extent on the inner web, the three outer 

 feathers are irregularly barred with dull rufous mottling for their basal 

 half, their ends for about an inch creamy-white, with ochraceous edges; 

 throat dark brov/n, minutely freckled with rufous, the neck immediately 

 below this color crossed with a band of pale rufous ; a line of pale rufous- 

 white or ochraceous spots extend along below the under mandible, and 

 down the side of the neck, a few spots of the same in a line below the 

 eye ; on the side of the neck enclosed by these spots and the band across 



