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narrow, irregular, transverse bars of brown. Throat with white collar, 

 beneath which the fulvous tint is predominant, forming a kind of under collar, 

 which is continued round the whole neck. Under tail-coverts fulvous,— tail 

 itself appears almost black, with a great terminal white band, and a narrower 

 one at about half its length. 

 Wings, an inch and a quarter shorter than the tail. Second primary, scarcely 

 perceptibly longer than the third ; the first about an eighth «f an inch shorter 

 than the second, and « ths longer than the fourth. Feathers on wing, with 

 the outer webs, slightly excised. 



In. In - 



Total length 9| 



Wing folded ...■•• 6 5 

 Tall 5 



Tarsi .... 

 From tip of beak to rictus 

 Of middle toe without the claw 



Habitat, Valparaiso Chile, (August). 



This species frequents the mountains of central Chile. When bivouacking 

 one night on the Bell of Quillota, at an elevation of 6000 feet above the sea, I 

 heard a gentle, plaintive cry, which I was told was made by this bird. It is 

 regarded with superstitious dread by many of the lower orders. 



Mr, Gould observes, that " this species has a strong resemblance, at the 

 first glance, with the Caprimulgus Europceus, but may be readily distinguished by 

 its shorter wing, more lengthened tarsi, by a conspicuous white band across the 

 base of the tail, and by all these feathers, except the two middle ones, having 

 another white band near the tip." Mr. Gould then adds, as " I am quite unde- 

 cided to which of the sub-genera this and the following species should belong, I 

 leave them for the present in the restricted genus, Caprimulgus, although I certainly 

 perceive in it many points of affinity to the group which inhabits the United States 

 of North America." 



2. Caprimulgus parvulus. Gould. 



Caprimulgus parvulus, Gould, Proceedings of the Zoological Society, February 1837, p. 22. 



C. capite intense fusco, guttis minutis cinereis ornato ; vitld rufa cervicem cingente ; 

 gutture scapularibusque ad marginem, secundariis ad apicem stramineis ; pectore 

 et abdomine lineis fuscis transversis ; primariis nigrescentibus, tribus fasciis in<e- 

 qualibus pallide rufescentibus ; caudd 'fasciis pallide fidvescentibus et fuscis ornatd. 



Long. tot. unc, 7 2 ; aloe, 5 ; caudce, 4 ; tarsi, §. 



Crown of head gray, with black longitudinal streaks. Back of neck with a fulvous 

 ring, which extends round the front beneath one of white, as in the C. bifas- 



