300 BROOKLYN INSTITUTE MUSEUM. SCIENCE BUEEETIN 2. 6. 
Not uncommon at Caicara. Three males and one female were 
taken during June, 1907. One only taken on my first expedition. 
Eye dark seal; bill black; feet blackish. 
PoLEMisTRiA VERREAUXi KL.xGESi ( Berlepsch & Hartert). 
Lophonns vcrreait.vi klagcsi Berlepsch &• Hartert. Xovit. Zool. X. 1902. 
p. 89 (Type, ex Suapure, Caura Ri\er, \'enezuelaj. 
Not observed on the (Jrinoco proper, but recorded b}- Rerlepsch 
and Hartert from Suapure ami from La I'ricion on the Caura Rixer. 
DlSC{)SL-R.\ LONGIC-M-DA (Cmelin). 
Trocliiliis loiif/icandiis Gm., Syst. Nat. I. 17~!S. p. 41 jS. 
Discosura longicauda Berlepsch & Hartert. p. 81). 
A single female was taken at Nericagua in April, 1899. Not 
observed elsewhere. 
CAPKIMULCtIDAE— G( ).VTSL-CKERS. NIGHTHAWKS AND 
WHIP-POOR-WILLS. 
Five species are included in the Berlepsch and Hartert paper, each 
of which is abundant throughout the region. 
TiiERMDciiALCisi cAVENNENsrs iNSULARis (Richmond). 
Capriinulf/us caycnuensis Gm., Syst. Nat. I. 1788. p. 1031. 
Stcnopsis cayciiuciisis Berlepsch & Hartert, p. 89. 
Stenopsis cayennensis insiilaris Richmond. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. XV 
1902; 159 (Curacao). 
S[tenopsis] c\ayc!inensis] insularis Ridgwa)-. P>ir<ls N. & M. Am. VI 
1914: 501 (Rio Caura, Venez.). 
Stenopsis cayennensis monticola Chapman, Bull. A. M. N. H. XXXIII 
1914: 173. ( Maripa, Rio Caura, Ven.) 
Common in the neighborhood of Altagracia. Caicara and Ouiri- 
bana de Caicara. During the day time they frequent the thickets that 
border the heavily wooded areas, where thev may be seen resting on the 
ground (usually) or on low horizontal branches. 
A nest with two fresh eggs was found at Caicara, May 8. 1905. 
The nest was a slight hollow in the bare ground of an open field. The 
eggs are elliptical-ovate in form and measure 17.6x24.6 and 17.5x23.7 
'Richmond Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash. XXVIII: 191.S: 180. 
