NYCTIBIUS PECTORALIS, Gould.

Nyct. alis cauddque haud albo Sasciatis ; fronte nigrescenti

-fusco ; plumis
badio alboque terminatis ;

nonnullis, et precipue cistulis superciharibus
Suscis, lineis nigris ornatis ; scapularibus cinereo
ittd nigra a mandibuld mferiore
pictis, pectore nigro large notato ; abdomi
Suscis, irregulariter brunneo fasciatis notatisque

cinereo intermixtis transversim fasciatd ;

nucha dorsoque cinerescenti
que pictis; humeris intense fuscis ; v

subtus cinereo brunneoque

» fusco, nigro-
currente ; guld, corporeque
neque nigro irregulariter fasciato ; primariis intus
, externe cinereo Juscoque fasciatis.
rostro pedibusque mgrescentibus.

Long. tot. 121 une. ; rostri, 11; ale, 93; caude, 7+

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ad plumas auriculares ex

Cauda fused, nigrescente et

5 tarsi, I.
Wings and tail without any large white bar; forehead blackish-brown, some
buif and white, particularly those of the elevated tufts which

back greyish brown, each feather with a fine black mark

of the feathers slightly tipped with
arise before each eye; back of the neck and
down the centre; scapularies mingled grey, brown
and black, the latter colour in large patches and occupying the tips of the feather ;

upper surface of the
shoulder deep blackish brown; under-surface tl

1e same, spotted with white; a black mark or band passes
beneath the under mandible and ends at the ear-coverts ; throat and all the under-surface finely mottled with
light gray and light brown; the chest having large blotches of black running down the middle, and
crescent-shaped irrecular band of the same crossing the upper part of the abdomen; primaries brown on
their inner webs with obscure, indistinct blotches and irregular bands of lighter brown, their external webs
obscurely banded with light grey and brown; all the tail-feathers brown, crossed with obscure, broad, arrow-
headed, mottled bars of blackish brown and grey; bill and feet blackish brown.

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Nyctibius pectoralis, Gould, in Proc. of Zool. Soc. Part VI. 1838.

Tuts species inhabits the northern parts of Brazil. It is nearly allied to Caprimulgus Jamaicensis, but is
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h less in all its admeasurements ; it is also allied to, but differs from the Caprimulgus longicaudatus of

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Spix.

The figures are of the natural size.