3G8 BIRDS OF BRITISH GUIANA. 



spotted with black, rufous, and white ; abdomen and under tail- 

 coverts riiteseer.t buff. 



Total length 178 mm., culmcn 8. wing 127. tail 84. tarsus 26. 



Adult male. Similar to the adult female, but differs in having 

 vhite sjiots on the inner webs of the outer tail-feathers. 



The female from which the description is taken was collected at 

 the Takntu Mountains. 



Breedinij-^seaiton. Unknown in British Guiana. 



Sest. Unrecorded in Briti>h Guiana, 



E<i[is. Undescribed from British Guiana. 



Ranae in British Guiana. Upper Takutii ^Mountains {Mrfonnell 

 collertion). 



E.rtralimital Ranoc. Brazil, Peru. Colombia. 



JtJahits. Unrecorded in British Guinna. 



242. Caprimulgus whitelyi. 



"Whitely'.s Night-Hawk. 



Antrnsfomus trhifr-Ii/i Salvin, Ibis, ISS.j, p. 438 CRoi-alma. 3-500 ft.). 

 Caprtmulffus irhiffli/i Hartert, Cat. B. Brit. Mus. xvi. p. o73. pi. xu. 

 1892 ; Braljourne & Chubb, B. S. Amer. i. p. 1U2, no. 963, 1912. 



Adult male. General colour of the upper parts blackish brown, 

 the feathers spotted, freckled, or mottled with white, grey, or 

 ferruginous ; bastard-wing and primary-coverts uniform dark 

 brown : primary and secondary quills uniform blackish brown 

 except the two outer primaries, which are crossed by a white bar, 

 and the innermost secondaries, which are notched on the inner 

 webs with ferruginous buff and more or less freckled with grev: 

 tail dark brown, tlie feathers mottled with grey and barred with 

 buff, the two penultimate feathers have a large white sub- 

 a])ical spot on the inner webs ; a patch of white on the throat, 

 some of the feathers tipped with buff; remainder of the under 

 surface dark brown, the feathers tipped with buff, or white in- 

 cluding the under wing^coverts, the buff increasing in extent on 

 the abdomen, where it assumes the form of bars ; under tail-coverts 

 and some of the inner under wing-coverts almost uniform buff. 



Total length 210 mm., culmen 10. wing 1.57. tail 103. tarsus 12. 



Adult female. Very similar to the adult male, differing only in the 

 absence of the white bar on the two outer primary-rjuills, which is 

 represented by an incomplete narrow rufous bar on the second and 

 third primary-quills, and the white spots on the tail-feathers only 

 faintiv indicated on one feather instead of two. AVing 1.07 mm. 



