262 Notes on some Cuhan Birds, 



Below are Dr. Gnndlacli's remarks on this species : 



" I am aware of your observations on this new species, and am also 

 happy to find my doubts were well founded. The namQ 'vociferus' 

 shall not remain in the catalogue, and in answer to your question will 

 say, that the bird mentioned under this name in La Sagra and Lem- 

 beye's works, and in my Catalogue in Cabanis Journal, is this same 

 species. You will name and describe it. I now send you a female. 



" I have observed this bird in the small islands in the Cienega de 

 Zapata, and on the coast of Manzanillo, that is, on the southern coast 

 of the central and eastern parts of the island. I cannot say whether it 

 is not found in other places. 



" From the month of March its voice may be heard, in which there 

 is not the least resemblance to the words ' whip-poor-will.' It breeds on 

 the island, and I believe it emigrates in autumn, for I have not observed 

 it in winter. 



"Length i 0-295 extent 0-548. 

 " $ 0-285 " 0-525. 



" The extremity of the wings is 0*024 from that of the tail. Bill 

 brown with the end black; iris very dark brown; feet brown." 



8. Chorcleiles minor, Cabanis. 



Chordeiles virginianus^ Lemb. Av. Isl. Cub. 1850, p. 51. 

 " minor, Cab. Jour. f. Orn. Jan. 1856, p. 5. 



" gundlachi, Lawr. Ann. Lye. N. Y. vi. Dec. 1856, p. 165. 



This species which has been considered in Cuba the same as 

 our C. vii'ginianus, I described as new, from specimens sent 

 by Dr. Gnndlach, not knowing that Cabanis had already proposed 

 a name for it, if further comparison proved it to be different 

 from mrginianus^iX'S, he judged it might be from its smaller 

 size. 



In my description the plumage of the adult female was not 

 given ; it differs from the male in being rather larger, in hav- 

 ing the band on the throat pale rufous, and the tail being with- 



