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erminal and basal portions; bill dusky brovm, darker terminally; 

 set dusky brownish (in dried skins); length (skin), 240; wing, 167; 

 ail, 122.5; exposed culmen, 15.5; tarsus, 15; middle toe, 16." 

 British Honduras (Toledo District.) 



Antrostomus hadius Bangs, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xxi, Feb. 29, 1908, 44 (Toledo 

 District, British Honduras; coll. E. A. and O. Bangs). 



ANTROSTOMUS RIDGWAYl Nelson. 



OTJERRESO WHIPPOORWILL. 



Adult TTude. — General color of upper parts brownish gray, inter- 

 ■upted by a conspicuous collar of deep buff or ochraceous-buff across 

 ower hindneck; pUeum minutely and indistinctly vermiculated with 

 iarker, and with mesial streaks of black, these very narrow (mere 

 ihaft-Iines) on lateral portions but broader along median line, espec- 

 ally on crown; back, scapulars, and rump brownish gray, rather 

 ;oaTsely vermiculated and freckled with pale dull buffy and with 

 listinct narrow black mesial streaks, the scapulars, however, with 

 nore conspicuous black markings, some of them edged externally 

 >y a curved bar of clear light buff, outside of which is an area of 

 sale grayish and buffy vermiculated or zigzagged with dusky; 

 (Fing-coverts brownish-gray and pale buffy, vermiculated with dusky 

 md with mesial streaks of black, many of the coverts (chiefly those 

 lear bend of wing) with a transverse terminal spot of light buff and a 

 subterminal spot or bar of black; inner secondaries ("tertials") 

 mottled and vermiculated with deep brownish gray or dusky and 

 pale grayish buffy, and with irregular mesial streaks of blackish; 

 remaining secondaries dusky with broken spots of buff or ochraceous- 

 buff in transverse series; primaries dull slate-blackish spotted with 

 ieep buff or ochraceous-buff, their terminal portion pale buffy 

 jrayish vermiculated and clouded with grayish dusky; upper tail- 

 joverts brownish gray and pale grayish buffy vermiculated and 

 mottled with dusky and with an irregular mesial streak or ragged 

 area of black; middle pair of rectrices pale brownish gray and grayish 

 buffy, vermiculated, freckled, and zigzagged with dusky, and crossed 

 by broad V-shaped bands of deeper grayish brown blotched with 

 iull black; next two pairs similar but the darker bars nearly soUd 

 iuU black, especially the third, which is tipped with buffy; fom'th 

 md fifth (two outermost) rectrices with the blackish bars relatively 

 broader and with the terminal 35 mm. of inner web white margined 

 terminally with pale brownish buff, the fom'th rectrix with the white 

 encroaching over more than inner half of outer web, but of very 

 broken or irregular outHne; auricular region deep sooty brown, 

 minutely and indistinctly vermiculated or narrowly barred with 

 lusky, the malar region similar, but on the anterior and lower por- 

 tions transversely spotted or broadly barred with white; chin and 



» One specimen (the type). 



