CATALOGUE OF BIRDS. 



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378. Petrochelidon nigricans. (Vieillot.) Australia. 



379. Peti-oclielidon cyanoleuca. (Vieillot.) Peru. 



380. Cotyle flavigastra. (Vieillot.) Brazil. 



381. Collocalia cinerea. (Gmelin.) Society Islands. 



Macropteryx leucophaeus. Peale. 



382. Collocalia spodiopygia. (Peale.) Samoan Islands. 



383. Cypselus apus. (Linnaeus.) Cape of Good Hope. 



384. Acanthylis zonaris. (Shaw.) Peru. 



385. Caprimulgus albonotatus. Tickell. (Obtained at Singapore.) 



Capriuiulgus bimaculatus. Peale.* 



386. Caprimulgus macrurus. Horsfield. (Obtained at Singapore.) 



387. Nyctibius aethereus. (De Wied.) Brazil. 



388. Batrachostomus javanensis. (Horsfield.) (Obtained at Malacca.) 



389. Podargus hunieralis. Vigors and Horsfield. Australia. 



390. Nyctidromus americanus. (Linnaeus.) Bi'azil. 



391. Stenopsis longirostris. (Bonaparte.) Chili. 



Caprimulgus conterminus. Peale. 



392. Stenopsis parvulus. (Gould.) Peru. 



Caprimulgus aequieauda. Peale. 



393. Antrostomus Nuttallii. (Audubon.) Oregon. 



394. Chordeiles acutipennis. (Boddaert.) Peru. 



Chordeiles peruvianus. Peale. 



395. Alcedo bengalensis. Gmelin. (Obtained at Malacca.) 



396. Ceryle alcyon. (Linnaeus.) Oregon. 



397. Ceryle americana. (Gmelin.) Brazil. 



398. Corythornis cyanostigma. (Riippell.) South Africa. 



399. Halcyon pileata. (Boddaert.) (Obtained at Singapore.) 



400. Halcyon erythrorhyncha. Gould. Cape de Verde Islands, 



401. Todiramphus vagans. (Lesson.) New Zealand. 



* " Crown and occiput cinereous gray, the feathers having a central black pointed mark down the 

 middle; aurioulars and chin rufous, crossed by fine lines of dark brown ; a white line along the lower 

 edge of the mouth; throat white, margined with black below; breast and belly tawny gray, finely 

 spotted with dark brown ; vent and under tail-coverts very pale tawny, crossed by small brown lines, 

 which are widest separated on the under tail-coverts; back dark tawny gray; scapulars tawny gray, 

 the outer feathers having an oblique black band, and those of the middle, black centres and broad outer 

 margins of pale buff ; wings mottled tawny gray, the upper coverts dark brown in the middle, and 

 tipped with white, the under coverts tawny, with dark brown bars; quills black, running into brown 

 towards the tips, the second longest, third nearly equal to it, fourth and first even, a white bar crosses 

 them in the middle, excepting the outer web of the first, second and third deeply incised in the middle 

 of the outer web; secondaries crossed by scattered rufous spots; tail rounded, dark brown, the middle 

 feathers mottled with .dark tawny gray, the outer ones slightly barred with rufous spots, two on each 

 side are white one-third of their length from the tip ; tarsi covered with tawny feathers barred with 

 brown ; toes dusky. 



"Total length, eleven and six-tenths inches; wing, from the carpal joint, eight and three-tenths 

 inches; tail, five and nine-tenths inches; tarsi, six-tenths of an inch; middle toe, including the nail, 

 nine-tenths of an inch ; nail, two-tenths of an inch ; bill, diree-tenths of an inch ; to the angle of the 

 mouth, one and one-tenth inches. 



" Inhabits the Malay Peninsula ; the specimen was obtained at Singapore.'" Peale, Zool. U. S. Exp. 

 Exp. Birds, p. 170. 



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