KANXOCnORDEILES. — NYCTirilOUNE. 350 



233. Nannochordeiles septentrionalis. 

 Northern Night-Hawk. 



Xannochonleiles septeiiirionalis Hellinayr, Nov. Zool. xv. p. 78. 1908 

 (Maipiires, Orinoco) ; I3rabounie & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 98, 

 no. 932, 1912. 



Chordeiles pusiUas Hartert, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 618 part, 1802 

 (Aunai). 



Adult male. General colour above dark brown or blackish, 

 spotted, freckled, or mottled with white, gvey, buff, or ferru- 

 ginous ; bastard -wing and primary-coverts uniform blackish ; 

 jtrimarj and secondary quills dark brown with a white bar on the 

 first four outer primaries and white tips to some of the inner 

 ])rimary-quills and secondaries, except the innermost secondaries 

 which are tipped with rufous buff, there are also a few white 

 markings towards the base of the quills ; outer tail-feathers with a 

 dark subapical band and a white spot at the tips, chietly on the inner 

 webs ; cheeks and breast brown with buff' spots at the tips of the 

 feathers; a broad white band across the throat; abdomen, sides 

 of the body, and under wing-coverts brown narrowly barred with 

 white ; under tail-coverts pure white. 



Total length 150 mm., culmen 5, wing 128, tail G-4, tarsus 11. 



Adult female. Like the adult male, but slightly smaller. Wing 

 122 mm. 



This species is not represented in the McConnell collection, and 

 the descriptions are taken from examples in the British Museum 

 collected by Whitely at Annai in March and April 1889 — Salvin- 

 Godman collection. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



JS'est. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



Kgfjs. Undescribed from British (jJuiana. 



Jx'antje in British Guiana. Annai (^Wliiteh/). 



J'.dtralimital Range. North 13razil, Venezuela. 



Jlahits. Unrecorded in Biitish Guiana. 



Genus NYCTIPROGNE Bonap. 



Sifctipro(jne Bcjiiajiarte, C. S. (). p. 35, 18.3-1-. Tvpo X. hucopiitia 

 .(Spix). 



This monotypic genus is distinguislu'd by the minute liill, 

 hidden nostrils, and ab>ence of rielal brisllcs. 



