BIEDS OF, NOETH AND MIDDLE AMEBIOA. 589 



[CaprimulgitsJgrandisGuBhiN, Syst. Nat., i, pt. ii, 1789, 1029 (Cayenne; based on 

 Caprimulgus brasiliensis major nsevius Brieson, Om., ii, 485; Grand Ibijau 

 Bufton, Hist. Nat. Ois., vi, 541; Grand Orapaiul-volant de Cayenne Dauben- 

 ton, PI. Enl., pi. 325; Grand GoatsttcherLBAham, Synop., ii, pt. 2, 590; etc.). — 

 Latham, Index Om., ii, 1790, 383 (Cayenne). 



C[aprimulgiis] grandis Maximilian, Beitr. Naturg. Bras., i, 1830, 295 (Rio Bel- 

 monte, Brazil). 



Caprimulgus grandis Tbmminck, Cat. Syst., 1807, 137. — ^Jardine and Selby, 

 lUustr. Om., 1829(?), pi. 89.— Koenig-Waethausen, Journ. fflr Om., 1868, 

 372 (deacr. eggs). 



Nyctibius grandisYisiLiiOT, Nouv. Diet. d'Hist. Nat., xvi, 1825, 7. — Lafebsnaye, 

 Mag. de Zool., 1837, clasae ii, not. 83, pi. 83, fig. 2a (p. 23) (monogr.). — Gray, 

 Gen. Birds, i, 1849, pi. 16.— Cassin, Proc. Ac. Nat. Sci. Phila., 1851, 184 

 (Surinam; Cayenne); Cat. Caprim. Mus. Phila. Ac, 1851, (5). — Bitemeister, 

 Journ. fur Om., 1853, 169 (Brazil; descr. egg); Syst. Ueb. Tli. Bras., ii, 1856, 

 374.— Lawrence, Ann. Lye. N. Y., vii, 1862, 290 (Lion Hill, Panama).— 

 Sclatek, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866, 128, 145 (monogr.); Journ. fiir Om., 

 1867, 256.— Sclater and Salvin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866, 193 (Ucayali, 

 e. Peru); 1873, 290 (upper Ucayali, e. Pern); 1875, 237 (San Cristobal, Vene- 

 zuela). — Pelzeln, Om. Bras., i. Abth., 1868, 10. — Euler, Journ. fur Om., 

 1869, 251 (Brazil; babits; nesting).— Reinhardt, Ved. Med. Nat. Forh., 1870, 

 115 (Brazil). — Taczanowski, Om. du P6rou, i, 1884, 204. — Salvin, Ibis, 

 1885, 437 (Camacusa, Brit. Guiana). — Hartert, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., xvi, 

 1892, 628 (San Cristobal, Venezuela; Camacusa, Brit. Guiana; Cayenne; 

 Sarayacu, e. Ecuador; upper Ucayali, e. Penl). — Salvin and Godman, Biol.- 

 Centr.-Am., Aves, ii, 1894, 400 (Lion Hill, Panama; etc.). — Goeldi, Ibis, 

 1897, 161 (Amapa, n. e. Brazil). — Salvadoki and Fbsta, Boll. Mus. Zool., 

 etc., Torino, xiv, 1899, no. 339, 8 (Punta de Sabana, Panama). — Ihering, 

 Rev. Mus. Paulieta, iii, 1899, 277 (Sao Paulo, s. Brazil); iv, 1900, 76 (descr. 

 eggs), 160 (Cantagallo and Novo Fribourgo, s. Brazil). — Hellmayr, Novit. 

 Zool., xiv, 1907, 33 (Obidos, Brazil; crit.), 78 (Teff6, Brazil; crit.).— Ber- 

 lepsch, Journ. fiir Om., xv, 1908, 270 (Cayenne). 



[Nyctibiiis'] grandis Bonaparte, Consp. Av., i, 1850, 58. — Gray, Hand-list, i, 1869, 

 55, no. 605. — Pelzeln, Om. Bras., iv. Abth., 1870, 400. — Sclater and Sal- 

 vin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 95.— Sharpe, Hand-list, ii, 1900, 79. 



N[yctibius] grandis Cabanis and Heine, Mus. Hein., iii, 1860, 94 (Surinam; 

 Brazil). — Hartert, Tierreich, Podarg., Caprim., Macropt., 1897, 16. 



NYCTIBIUS GRISEUS JAMAICENSIS (Gmelin). 



JAMAICAN POTOO. 



Adult Tnale. — ^Pileum broadly streaked or striped with black and 

 white, or white and pale brownish buffy, the black predominating; 

 hindneck and back brownish gray to light buffy brown, faintly ver- 

 miculated with darker and narrowly streaked with black; scapular 

 region in part similar in coloration to back, but the anterior portion 

 irregularly spotted or blotched with black; lower back and rump 

 duU sooty black or slate-blackish, uniform anteriorly (sometimes 

 throughout) but usually more or less spotted posteriorly with pale 

 buffy brown or brownish gray; upper tail-coverts dusky with small 

 spots of pale brownish gray or buffy brownish; anterior portion of 



