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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Podargus wants the oil-gland, and possesses powder-down 
patches on the rump. These and the tongue are figured. Nyc- 
tibius also probably has like patches,, and the author^s views as 
to the removal of the Podargince from this family are thereby 
strengthened*. Further remarks on, or descriptions of, some 
other species of Caprimulgidce, four more of which are described 
as new, complete this paper. 
Podargus phlcenoides is figured, S. Biggies, Orn. Austral, payt x. 
JBatrachostomus, anatomical notes on. E. Blytli, Ibis, 1866, p, 357, note. 
Antrostomus ornatus is a new species from Brazil, like A, rutilus, but very 
much blacker, and large oval spots on the second and third rectrices, one of 
which is figured in a woodcut. P. L. Sclater, P. Z. S. 1866, pp. 586, 587, 
pi. xlv. {Jig. maid). 
Antrostomus parvulus (Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p, 22) and A. maculicaudus 
(La^vr. Ann. Lyc. N. York, vii. p. 459) are figured. Ideniy tom. cit, pis. 
xiii., xlv;. {Jigg. malce.). 
Stenopsis nificervix is a new species from New Granada and Ecuador, like 
S, hifaseiata, but smaller and with a rufous-chestnut collar, and crown 
spotted with rufous. P. L. Sclater, P. Z. S. 1866, pp. 140, 141, pi. xiv. (Jig. 
mala). (The outer rectrices in this and the two other species of Stenopsis 
are figured, ibidem, p. 139.) 
Stenopsis leucura (Vieill.) is proposed to bo called S, candicans, Pelzeln,” 
and is minutely described. Idem, tom. cit. pp. 688, 589. 
Stenopsis langsdorfi and S.platura, Pelzeln,” are described as two new 
species, — the first from Eastern Brazil, much resembling S. candicans [sc. 
leucura'], but having narrower, more pointed, and entirely banded wings, and 
differing also in the ochre-yellow of the under side and the banded tail. The 
second, from Southern Brazil, is near S. rujicei'vix, but is smaller, and has grey 
markings on the upper surface; it also wants the white wing-spot and tail- 
bands. Both species were found by Natterer. Idem, tom. cit. pp. 688-691. 
IIydrop)salis ypanemce and II. pallescens (Zool. Bee, ii. p. 99), the descrip- 
tions reprinted. J. f. 0. 1866, pp. 46-49. 
Semiophorus vexillarius, Gould, is the freshly moulted Caprimidgus longi- 
pennis. H. Schlegel, P. Z. S. 1866, p. 421. 
Caprimulgus pajmensis is a new species from Salwatty and the coast of 
New Guinea, allied to C. macrurus, but less deep in colour, with the throat 
coppery -rufous, banded and barred with black, the feathers of the breast and 
belly terminated by a large rufous spot, and wanting the white tip to the 
tail. II. Schlegel, N. T. D, Hi. p. 340. 
Caprimidgus tamaricis (Zool. Becord, i. p. 72) is beautifully figured and 
its habits are described. H. B. Tristram, Ibis, 1866, pp. 74-76, pi. ii. 
Caprimidgus macrurus is figured. S. Biggies, Orn. Austral, part iv. 
Cypselus melba, account of its habits, 0, Bolle, J. f. 0. 1866, pp. 62-70 ; 
II. B. Tristram, Ibis, 1860, pp. 77-79; Y, Fatio, Bull. Soc, Orn, Suisse, 
1806, pp. 47-64. 
Cypselus affinis, a suggested explanation of its apparently varying mode 
of nidification. II. B, Tristram, Ibis, 1866, pp, 76, 77. 
Cypselus acuticauda must be added to the Indian ornis, E. Blyth, Ibis, 
1860, p. 339. - 
