594 BULLETIN 50, UNITED STATES NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



NyctiUus jamaicensis Sclatbe, Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond., 1866, 129, part (monogr.).— 

 ScLATEsand Saivin, Proc. Zool. Soc. Loud., 1879, 531 (Concordia, Antioquia, 

 Colombia).— Haktebt, Cat. BirdB Brit. Mus., xvi, 1892, 625, part (Concordia, 

 Colombia).— Salvin and Godman, Biol. Centr.-Am., Aves, ii,. 1894, 399, 

 part (Lion HUl, Panama; Colombia). 



[NyctibiiLs] jamaicensis Sclatbe and Salyin, Nom. Av. Neotr., 1873, 95, part. — 

 Sharpe, Hand-lifit, ii, 1900, 79, part. 



N]jictibius]jainaicensis (typiais) Habteht, Tierreicb, Podarg., Caprim., Macropt., 

 1897, 16, part. 



Nyctibius griseas panamensis Ridgway, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash.., xxv. May 4, 1912, 

 91 (Nata, Code, Panama; coll. U. S. Nat. Mus.). 



Suborder STRIGES.a' 



OWLS. 



—Noctumi Illigeh, Prodromus Om., 1811, 23?,. 



=JVoctom'i ViBiLLOT, Analyse, 1816, 25. 



^Mgolii ViBiLLOT, Analyse, 1816, 25. 



=Striges Waglek, Naturl. Syst. Amphib., etc., 1830, 80.— Newton, Encyc . 



Brit., 9th ed., xviii, 1885, 47.— Shaepe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., ii, 1874, 1; 



Re-view Rec. At. Classif. Birds, 1891, 79.— Ameeican Obnithologists' 



Union, Check List, 1886, 197 (and of later editions).- Ptteebeingbe, Unters. 



Morph. Syst. Vog., ii, 1888, 1567.— Bbddaed, Struct, and Classif. Birds, 1898, 



244.— Gadow, Classif. Vertebr., 1898, 36.— Knowlton, Birds of the World, 



1909, 50. 

 =Accipitrinae noctumae Nitzsch, Syst. Pterylogr., 1840, 95. 

 =Acdpitres noctumi Geat, Hand-list, i, 1869, pp. vi, 38. 

 =iVoctisrmriTziNGBE, Sitz. K. Acad. Wiss. Wien (Mat.-Nat. Classe), xxi, heft 



2, 1856, 290. 

 =Strigidse Bonapabte, Prodr. Syst. Om., 1840, 3; Consp. Gen. Av., i, 1850, 



36. — Kaup, in Jardine's Contr. Om., 1851, 119. — Lilljeboeg, Proc. Zool. 



Soc. Lond., 1866, 15.— Geay, Hand-list, i, 1869, pp. vi, 38. 

 =^Stnmdse D'Obbigny, Voy. Am. Mtod., iv, pt. 3, 1839, 123. 

 =StrigomoTphae Caetjs, Handb. Zool., Wirbelth., i, 1868, 75, 303. 

 =Nyctharpages Sundevall, Met. Nat. Av. Disp. Tent., 1872, 103. 

 =Nyctiharpages Ridgway, Bull. U. S. Nat. Mus., no. 50, pt. v, 1911, 298. 

 =Strigoideas Stejnegee, Sci. Rec, ii. May 15, 1884, 155. 

 =Strigiformes Shabpe, Hand-list, i, 1899, 280. 



=Podargokarpages Fueebeinqeb, Unters. Morph. Syst. Vog., ii, 1888, 1567. 

 =Strigidae (Nyctiharpages) Fuebbeingee, Unters. Morph. Sys. Vog., li, 1888, 



1306. 



Desmognatlious or schisjognathous Coraciiformes with feet desmo- 

 pelmous, the flexor tendons of type I; coracoids connected; hypo- 

 tarsus simple; myological formula A; two carotid arteries; syrinx 

 bronchial; aftershaft absent or (in Tytonidse) redimentary; plum- 

 age soft (caprimulgine) ; primaries 11, and young ptilopsedic. 



Nasals holorhinal; maxillo-palatines thick and spongy, encroaching 

 on the intervening vaUey ; basipteiygoid processes and vomer present ; 

 cranial walls widely separated by intervening spongy dipl>oe ; meta- 

 sternum 2-4-notched; spina externa sterni present, spina interna 



a In the Key to the. Suborders of Coraciiformes, on p. 298 of Part V of this work, 

 the Suborder name Nyctiharpages is used instead of Striges. 



