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small irregular or broken spots of duU ochraceous-buff; biU brown, 

 blackish terminally; iris dark brown; legs and feet brownish, the 

 toes darker terminally; length (skins), 270-272 (271); wing, 177-189 

 (181.8); tail, 131.5-141.5 (134.8); exposed cuhnen, 14-15 (14.5); 

 tarsus, 17-19 (18); middle toe, 18-18.5 (18.2)." 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but lateral rectrices more 

 narrowly tipped with white and ochraceous-buflF, these Hght-colored 

 tips about 15 mm. in extent (at widest part) on outer pair, about 

 8-10 mm. wide on third pair, with more or less of white centrally, 

 especially on fourth and inner web of fifth (outermost) rectrices; 

 length (skin), 255; wing, 176; tail, 121; exposed cuhnen, 15.5; 

 tarsus, 18; middle toe, 18.* 



Island of Cuba (Bayate; Cienega de Zapata island; coast of 

 ManzanHlo) and Isle of Pines. 



Caprimulgus vodferus (not of Wilson) D'Orbiqny, in La Sagra's Hist. Nat. Cuba, 

 Ois., i, 1839, 98.— Lembeye, Aves de la Isla de Cuba, 1850, 130. 



Antrostomvs vodferus Cabanis, Joum. fiir Om., 1856, 6. — Brewer, Proc. Bost. 

 Soc. Nat. Hist., vii, 1850, 306. 



Antrostomus cuhanenm Lawrence, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist. N. Y., vii, 1862 (pub- 

 Ushed May, 1860), 260 (Cienega de Zapata I. and coast of Manzanillo, Cuba; 

 coll. G. N. Lawrence). — Albkecht, Joum. fiir Om., 1861, 203 (translation 

 of orig. descr.). — Gundlach, Report. Fisico-Nat, Cuba, i, 1866, 283; Joum. 

 fiir Om., 1874, 120 (habits); Om. Cubana, ed. 1895, 102.— Sclater, Proc. 

 Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866, 585 (crit.).— Cory, Auk, iii, 1886, 342; Birds West 

 Ind., 1889, 137; Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 105, 128.— Bangs and Zappey, 

 Am. Nat., xxxix, 1905, 203 (Isle of Pines). 



[Antrostomus] cabanensis Gundlach, Joum. fiir Om., 1861, 330. — Cory, List 

 Birds West Ind., 1885, 16. 



Antrost[omus] cabanensis Gundlach, Joum. fiir Om., 1861, 411, in text (crit.). 



A[ntrostoirms\ cabanensis Eidgway, Man. N. Am. Birds, 1887, 298. 



Androstomus cabanensis Cory, Cat. West Ind. Birds, 1892, 12. 



Antrostomus macromystax var. cabanensis Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway, Hist. 

 N. Am. Birds, ii, 1874, 409. 



[Caprimulgus] cabanensis Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 59, no. 664. — Sharpe, Hand- 

 list, ii, 1900, 85. 



C[aprimulgus] cabanensis Habtert, Tierreich, Podarg. , Caprim., Macropt. , 1897, 43. 



Caprimulgus cabanensis Hartebt, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 571. 



ANTROSTOMUS VOCIFERUS VOCIFERUS (Wilson). 

 WHIPPOORWILL. 



Adult male. — General color of upper parts mixed grayish brown 

 and brownish gray, minutely vermiculated and stippled with dusky; 

 pileum streaked with black, the streaks narrow and linear (some- 

 times obsolete) on lateral portions, much broader and more guttate 

 along median line, where usually coalesced and forming an irregular 

 stripe; scapulars with large irregular spots or blotches of black, 

 these usually margined, in part, with irregular narrow areas of buff 



o Three specimens. 6 One specimen. 



