300 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



2:U. Nyctiprogne leucopyga. 

 White-humped Night-Hawk. 



Caprimulgtis leMcopygiis Spix, Av. Bras. ii. p. 3, pi. iii. fig. 2, 1825 



("ad litora sylvestria fl. Amazonum "). 

 Nyctiprogne leucopi/ga Hartert, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xvi. p. 619, 1892 ; 



Brabourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 99, no. 933, 1912. 



Adult. General colour above blackish l)ro\vn mottled, freckled, 

 and barred with rufous brown, coar.«or and more pronounced on 

 the scapulars, winos, and middle tail-feathers ; a white band 

 across the outer tail feathers commencing on the inner web of the 

 outer feather ; throat and breast similar to the upper surface but 

 more coarsely marked ; abdomen, under tail-coverts, and under 

 wino-coverts blackish barred with white. 



Total length 168 mm., culmen G, wing 138, tnil 93, tnrsus 11. 



The bird described was collected on the Abarj River in June 

 1891. 



The male and female are said to be similar. 



Immatftre. Differs from the adult in having the primary-qnills 

 tij)ped with rufous. 



Breeding-season. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Sest. Unrecorded in British Guiana. 



J'^ggs. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Bange in British Guiana. Abai'y Kiver [McConnell collection). 



Kxtralimital Bange. Venezuela, South Biazil. 



Habits. Unrecorded in British Guiami. 



Genus PODAGER Wagl. 



Pndager Wagler, Isis, 1832, p. 277. Type P. nacunda (Vieill.). 



This monotypic genus is distinguished by the much broader bill 

 (width at base 37 mm.) ; the rictal bristles well developed, though 

 not long, are quite conspicuous, the tarsi and toes naked, and 

 the tarsus and middle toe, with claw, almost equal in length. 

 Scapulars and innermo.'-t secondaries uniform witii the back. 



235. Podager nacunda. 



Xacunda Xight-Hawk. 



Caprimulgus nacnnda Yieill. X. Diet. d"Hist. Nat. x. p. 240, 1817 



C Paraguay J. 

 Fodnger nacunda Cab. in Schomb. Eei.s. Guian. iii. p. 71J, 1848 ; Salvin, 



