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Koen;g Rescnren Tnstitute and ZoologicBI Museum, Ornithology, Rcsearch. Group: Ilíology and Phylogeny of Tropi cal Birds, 16(1, 0-53113 üunn, tQ Brilish Ornitho1 ogiSll' Club 1999 Recent record s of the Sickle-winged Nightjar Eleothreptus anomalus in south-east Brazil by Cuy M. Kirwmt, Paulo Martuscelli, Luís Fábio Silveira ES Robert S. R. Williams RutÍved I 1998 In Brazil, the endangc rcd Sickle-wingcd Nightjar Eleothreptus anomalus is kno wn from 19 traced localitics: in Distrito Federal, Minas Gtlrais Rnd from Sao Paulo south ro t;cntral Rio Grand e do Sul (Collar el al. 1992, Sick 1993) . There huye been ju st fivc records since 1971, the most recent being one roum..l dcad in Paran " in 1994 (Bornschein el al . 1996), alt hough Born!lchcin et al. (11J98) mention rhat they rcco rded three birds in R humid fidd by the rio Iraí, oca!" Curitiba, Paraná, on Cuy M. Ki TW<l" et al. 203 B"tt. B.O. C.I999 119(3) 20 Septemher 1991. Here, details of ten new records, four f rom Sao Paulo and four (aU from Qne site) in Minas Gemis, the latter the first stote records since 1847 (Collar et al, 1992), are pr esented. Details of two specimen records, previously unreported in the literature, are also presented . Although al1 of th e records here, with the exception of the two most rece nt (1998) oc currences in Minas Geujs, were made aWlilablc to Cleere (199R) we consider thcm worthy of separat c publication and discussion here, as thc y suggest that the species may be found more readily in south-east Flrazil than prev io usly considered. PM recorded three occurn:.:nccs in Sao Paulo !ltate as follows: two individuals in "campo cerrado", near a marsh at Santa Cruz do Ri o Pardo (350m, 22"53'8, 49°37'W) on 15 July 1995; fivc well-separated individual s in a humid ficld al Biritiba-Mirim (900 m, 2r34'S, 46" 02'W) on 23 April 1998; and one bird in pasturc near a swamp with 7'yphu at Tremembé (650 m, 22"S7'5, 4S " 32'W) , dat e not recorded. Al dusk on 4 February 1997, GMK and RSl{W, together with David D. Beadle snd Rod McCann, fo und two Sickle-winged (possibly a pair) on the dirt road just north of Sete Barras (24" 40'S, 4T72'W) am.I south of Carlos Botelho 8tate Park, Sao Paulo. T he birds were ob scrvcd w¡,h binoculars in car headlight s, llnd showed man y of the chara cter istics described by Pearman & Abadie (1995). Their tiny size and !lhon tail were immediately appfl rcnt (althoug h there were no other species available for direct comparison), as their unU !l ual flight action, being very fluttery and comparative ly buoyant. Olle bird possessed a buffy nuehal collar and pale bases to the outermost, othcrwisc blackish, primari es. Pour other smal1 nightjars in the !llame area were too briefl.y to facilitare identificstion. These appear 10 be onIy rhe +-6th multiple 8ight rCl."Qrds (for a further 8uch record, below), fo ll owing those described by Miate1lo et al. (1991), Straneck & Viñas (1994) and Pcarman & Abad ie (1995) in Entre Ríos, Córdoba and Santiago del Estero, Argentina, and the fOUT Sao Paulo records are the 19th-22nd occurrences (from 16 localitics). LF8 reco rded a female at Serta da Canastra National Park (20' 14'8, 46"21'W), Minas Gerais on 22 June 1996 at 1945h. The bird was photographed un the ground, Qn the principal (dirt) road throu gh the park. It Rew 9hort distances to eatch insecls, before returning to the road after each flycacching !;ally. It was in a grassla nd formation, far from any water course. Another, ur perh aps the !la me bird , was seen in the same place on 22 Au gust 1997, Together w it h Andrés BO!l!lo and Edson Endrigo, LFS saw a male in a grass fic1d far from any watercourse or marshy areas, at Serra da Canas tra 0 11 20 and 22 August 1998, while Heinz Remold a nd Edwin O. Willis recorded three bird R, also in th e snme dry arca of national park , on 7-8 Novemher 1998. LFS et al. hl:llrd a female utter a "simple tik" note in fljght, apparently cliffercnt to the "harsh, nasal gue gzee mentionl:d by Straneck & Viñ ll8 (I994) and Cleere (1998). HR iu Jiu. (1998) records that the th ree ohserved by bimself and EOW maclc "sorne ch irping cr icket-like sounds ". 'I'hese are the 2-Sth rccords in Minas Gerais; rhe only