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Show 138 MR. SCLATER ON THE AMERICAN CAPRIMULGIDcE. [Feb. 27, Caprimulgus ocellatus, Tsch. Consp. Av., et Faun. Per. pi. 5. f. 2. C. brasiliensis, Tsch. F. P. p. 125. Antrostomus ocellatus, Cassin, Proc. Acad. Phil. v. p. 183 ; ejusd. M a m m . et Orn. Expl. Exp. p. 187; Burm. Syst. Ueb. ii. p. 386. Caprimulgus lunulatus, Natt. M S . (no. 518). Hab. South-eastern Brazil (Max.) ; wood-region of Eastern Peru (Tschudi) ; Ypanema, Brazil (Mus. Berol.). Remarkable for the elongation forwards of the loral plumes, somewhat as in yEgotheles. Sect. B. Speculo alari albo. 8. ANTROSTOMUS NIGRESCENS. Caprimulgus nigrescens, Cab. in Schomb. Guian. iii. p. 710. C. semitorquatus, Gray & Mitch. Gen. Birds, i. pi. 17. Stenopsis nigrescens, Cass. Cat. Capr. Antrostomus nigrescens, Cab. et Hein. Mus. Hein. iii. p. 91. $ . Nigricans rufo maculatus: subtus niger, albido-rufescente regulariter transvittatus : vitta gulari, macula in remigum iidl, iii1, et iv1 pogoniis internis et rectricum lateralium apicibus albis: long, tota 7'5, alar 5'5, caudar 3'7. 5 . Mari similis, sed maculis remigum et rectricum nullis. Hab. British Guiana (Schomb.); Para and Rio Negro (Natt. sp. no. 880) ; New Granada (Mus. P. L. S.). 9. ANTROSTOMUS PARVULUS. (PI. XIII.) Caprimulgus parvulus, Gould, P. Z. S. 1837, p. 22, et Zool. Voy. Beagle, iii. p. 37. " Caprimulgus mixtus, Licht." Natt. no. 357. c? . Nigro rufoque variegatus, pileo summo nigro, maculis in tec-tricum alarium apicibus albis : subtus fulvus, nigro transradia-tus: remigum ii*1, iii1, et iv1 vitta et rectricum lateralium apicibus albis : long, tota 7'5, alar 5"3, caudar 4. $ . Mari similis, sed maculis remigum et rectricum albis nullis. Hab. Banks of the Parana near Santa Fe, La Plata (Darwin); South Brazil, Villa Maria, Sept. 1825 (Natt.). I doubt much whether Peale's C. arquicaudatus (Zool. Expl. Exp. Birds, p. 168) can be identical with this species, as supposed by Mr. Cassin ( M a m m . & Orn. Expl. Exp. p. 188, Atlas, pi. 13. f. 1). It is from Callao, Peru, a very different locality. The female specimen of m y pair (collected by Natterer) agrees perfectly with Mr. Gould's type now in the British Museum, and I have seen another example in Sir William Jardine's collection. Genus 5. STENOPSIS. The three species which I refer to this genus all have a broad and distinct white bar across the first four primaries. They may be diagnosed as follows :- |