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Young female (full grovm) ."—PHeum pale buff and buffy grayish 

 white suffused with pale tawny-ochraceous, each feather with a small 

 central or subterminal spot (mostly of broadly rhomboid or sub- 

 cordate form) of black; rump and upper tail-coverts ochraceous-buff 

 to pale russet or tawny, barred, more or less distinctly, with blackish; 

 wing-coverts (in part) pale grayish buffy with sparse, fine vermicula- 

 tions of dusky and irregular mesial streaks of black; under parts pos- 

 terior to breast buff or light ochraceous-buff, narrowly and rather 

 indistinctly barred with dusky; rest of the plumage (belonging to 

 new dress) as in adult female. 



Panama (Volcto de ChiriquI; near Panama City) and southward 

 through Colombia (San Sebasti&n and Montajira, Santa Marta), Vene- 

 zuela (San Crist6bal; Caracas; San JuH^n; Escorial, 3,000 feet), 

 Cayenne, and Brazil (Pernambuco; Par&; Bahia; Rio de Janeiro; 

 Rio Araguaya; Sao Paulo; Novo Fribourgo) to northern Argentina 

 (Ocampo) .* 



Caprimulgus rufm Boddaeet, Tabl. PL Enl., 1783, 46 (based on Crapaud-VolarU 

 (W Tette-CUvre de Cayenne Daubenton, PL Enl., pL 735.)— Vieillot, Nouv. 

 Diet. d'Hist. Nat., x, 1817, 244, part; Enc. M6tli., 1823, 541.— Haetert, Cat. 

 Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 566, part (Volcan de Chiriqui, Panama; San 

 Cristobal and Caracas, Venezuela; Pard, Pernambuco, Bahia, and Bio de 

 Janeiro, Brazil).— Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1894, 

 885.— Iheeing, Rev. Mus. Paulista, iii, 1899, 269 (Sao Paulo, s. Brazil); iv, 

 1900, 160 (Novo Fribourgo, s. Brazil), 255 (descr. eggs).— Hellmats, Novit. 

 Zool., XV, 1908, 79 (Rio Araguaya, Brazil; crit.).— Beelepsch, Novit. ZooL, 

 XV, 1908, 269 (Cayenne).— Habtbet and Vbntuei, Novit. Zool., xvi, 1909, 

 224 (Ocampo, Argentina; descr. eggs). 

 [Caprimulgm] rufus Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, pt. 2, 1789, 1030.— Latham, Index 

 Orn., ii, 1790, 586.— Geat, Hand-list, i, 1869, 59, no. 669.— Shaepb, Hand- 

 list, ii, 1900, 85, part. 

 C[aprimulgiis] rufus Harteet, Tierreich, Podarg., Caprim., Macropt., 1897, 43, 



part. 

 [Antrostomus] rufus Bonapaetb, Consp. Av,, i, 1850, 61. — Sclatbb and Salvin 



Norn. Av. Neotr., 1873, 96. 

 Antrostomus rufus CA.Bsm, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1851, 183.— Sclatee, Proc. 

 Zool. See. Lond., 1866, 136 (monogr.); Journ. ftir Om., 1867, 267.— Sclatee 

 and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1875, 237 (San Cristobal, Venezuela).— 

 Taczanowski, Om. du P6rou, i, 1884, 219.— Bangs, Proc. New Engl. Zool. 

 Club, i, 1899, 78 (San Sebastian, Santa Marta, Colombia).— Robinson and 

 Richmond, Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xxiv, 1901, 171 (San Julian, Venezuela). 

 Anthrostomus rufus Thatee and Bangs, Bull. Mus. Comp. Zool., xlvi, 1906, 216 



(Sabana de Panama). 

 Antrostormis rutilus Buemeistee, Syst. Ueb. Th. Bras., ii, 1856, 385. — Eulee, 



Journ. fiir Orn., 1869, 253 (Brazil; habits). 

 [Caprimulgusi rutilus Geay, Hand-list, i, 1869, 59, no. 670. 

 Antrostomus omatus Sclatee, Proc. ZooL Soc. Lond., for 1866, pt. iii, April, 1867, 

 586, pi. 45 (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; coU. Brit. Mus. and P. L. Sclater). 



o The two specimens examined have mostly assumed the adult plumage; therefore 

 the young plumage of certain parts only can be described. 



6 I have not seen specimens from south of the Guianas, Venezuela, and Colombia. 



