White-winged Nightjar

19-21 cm. A small, pale nightjar. Upperparts and inner wing coverts pale gray- brown speckled, barred and streaked brown: crown with black spots: outer wing coverts white with brown edges and black spots: scapulars grayish-brown with black marks: broad submoustachial stripe light buff: a line of buff spots around the lower throat: breast gray brown tinged chestnut and tawny barred and speckled brown: rest of underparts white.<nThe female has no white in the plumage, and has the scapulars with more black marks and buff underparts: iris reddish brown.<nThe immature is like the adult but browner and less gray with no white in the wings and tail.

Calls of males are short undulating whistles. Females may utter a sharp eck : males may produce a mechanical grrrrrr.. at the beginning of sallies Cleere N, Nightjars, Yale University Press New Haven and London, 1998 .

Crepuscular and nocturnal. Forages flying low over cerrado usually about 1 - 2 meters above the ground: also makes short sallies from the ground or a low perch.

Possibly extinct in Estado S<C4>o Paulo ^119 . In open savannah and grassland, cerrado. Sea level - 200 meters.

Occured inland in Estado S<C4>o Paulo. Historically at <8E>Orissanga ^119 .

In flight the male has white wings and a mostly white tail.