322 NOVITATES ZOOLOGICAE XXV. 1918. 



any specimens, but from Palawan we have an adnlt male and a female, besides 

 some juveniles. In colour our Palawan birds are slightly darker, the underside 

 more brownish, while of the two Palawan sldns in the British Museum one has 

 the chin almost, the other quite as rufous as in the Javan examples. The wings 

 of our adult Bornean birds measure : 3 180, $ apparently only 175, while in our 

 Bornean males they vary from 184—194, ? 188, and that of the Javan adult female 

 179 mm. It is thus possible that the Bornean race is somewhat larger, but we 

 must for the present provisionally accept Oberholser's view, i.e. to unite the 

 Javan, Bornean, and Palawan birds as C. macrvrus macrurus Horsf. 



Caprimulgiis macrurus oberholseri subsp. nov. 



A series of four males from Lombok and Siimbawa differs strildngly from 

 typical macrurus : the upperside of the body is only slightly more lufescent, 

 but the underside is decidedly more rufescent, especiially on the upper throat 

 and chest, but also on the abdomen. The outside of the wings is also more 

 rufous. With these birds agrees perfectly an adult male from Salayer (November 

 1895, A. Everett leg.), and a female from Djampea (14. xii. 1895, A. Everett 

 leg.) appears to be also the same. Wings : o Lombok 188, cj Lombok 19i', 

 ij Sumbawa 188 mm. The other specimens moulting. 3 Salayer wing 1<S4'5 

 mm. 



Typo: o ad. Lombok, 1,5(10 feet, vi. 1890. A. Everett leg. 



Caprimulgus macrurus mesophanis Oberh. 



C'a]iiimiit'jiis miiniiriis mcsiiiihanis Obciiiolser, Proc. U.S. Nat. J/w.s. xlviii. p. .V,in(HI|,l — .\mboina). 



It was a daring jnocecding to describe this bird from one single specimen, 

 but our material coirfirms its th'stinctness, which is not one of size. The colour of 

 C. 171. rnesopJianis is more like that of oberholseri, and may be said to be somewhat 

 intcrmrdi:'tc ljet\\'een the latter and I. m. iiincrurus ; the upper throat is reddish, 

 the abdomen darker, more rufescent than in C m. macrurus, but not so bright 

 as in oberholseri, the barring narrower than in C. m. rimcriirus, about the same 

 as in C. m. oberholseri. The wings of 8 males measure 184-192, i.e. by no means 

 larger than Bornean specimens ! 



This form inhabits probably all the Moluccan Islands proper. We have 

 it from Amboina, Ceram, Ceram Laut, Burn, and Obi. 



Caprimulgus macrurus kuehni subsp. nov. 



4 (J, 1 $ from Tual, Little Key, Key Islands, the males collected in May, 

 the female in October, by the late Heinrich Kiihn, are nearest to the Moluccan 

 form, but the bars on the abdomen are generally narrower and the wings are 

 strikingly shorter. Those of the males measure only 175-177 mm., that of the 

 female is in moult, but its wing is probably only a little longer than 170 mm. 



Type: cJ ad. Tual (Toeal), 10. v. 1898. Heinrich Kiihn leg. No. 761. 



Caprimulgus macruras yorki Math. 



Caprimulgus macrurus yorki Mathews, Nov. Zool. xviii. p. 291 (1912 — Cape York, Northern Queens- 

 land). 



We have a large series of Goatsuckers of this species from New Guinea, 

 i.e. from various parts of British New Guinea and the foot-hills of the Suow 



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