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BIRDS OF HAITI AND SAN DOMINGO. 



FAMILY 



CAPRIMULGID.E. 



Subfamily, CAPRIMULGIN^E. 



Genus: ANDROSTOMUS. Gould. 

 A NDROSTOMUS : "-GOULD, ICONES AVIUM, 1838." 



ANDROSTOMUS CAROLINENSIS. (Gm.) 



Caprimulgus carolinensis. Gm., Syst. Nat., I. p. 1028 (1788). — Aud., 



B. Am., I. p. 151, pi. '41 (1840). 

 Antrostomus carolinensis. Bp., Consp., p. 60 (1850). — Bd., B. N. 



Am., p. 147 (1858). — Scl., Cat. Am. Bds., p. 280 (1862). — Bd., 



But. and Ridgw., N. Am. Bds., II. p. 410 (1874). — Gund., 



Anal, dc la Soc. Esp. de Hist. Nat., Tomo VII. p. 201 (1878). 



— Cory, Bds. Bahama I., p. 104 ( 1 880). — Cory, Bull. Nutt. 



Orn. Club, VI. p. 153 (1881). 

 Caprimulgus brachyptcrus. " Steph., Shaw's Gen. Zool., X. p. 150 



(1825)?" 



Caprimulgus rufus. Vieill., Ois. Am., Sept. I. p. 57, pi. 25 (?). 



Sp. Char., Male. — Lateral filaments to the bristles of the 

 mouth; general color, pale rufous, mottled with reddish brown; 

 crown streaked with black; feathers of the throat paler, and having 

 the appearance of a brownish bar; terminal two thirds of the tail- 

 feathers, with the exception of the four central ones, rufous white; 



