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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 undercollar, 
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 of an inch shorter 
than the second, and s ths longer than the fourth. Feathers on wing, with 
the outer webs, slightly excised. 
In. 
Total length ...... 9f 
Wing folded ...... 6^ 
Tail 5 
In. 
Tarsi T 8 o 
From tip of beak to rictus ... 1 
Of middle toe without the claw - L 7 0 - 
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 ; vittd rufd cervicem cingente ; 
gutture scaputaribusque ad marginem, secundariis ad apicem stramineis ; pectore 
et abdomine lineis fuscis transversis ; primariis nigrescentibus, tribus f asciis ince- 
qualibus pallide rufescentibus ; caudci f asciis pallidd fidvescentibus et fuscis ornatd. 
Long. tot. unc,, ; alee, 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- 
