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spread nearly over the whole feather on the smaller ; the first 

 primary only with some very pale spots, these also visible on the 

 tips of all the quills ; the first 8 or 4 primaries with rounded white 

 spots to the inner webs ; shorter primaries totally barred, longer ones 

 on the basal part only, longest only with obsolete bars near the base ; 

 tail very dark, the two outer rectrices with lai-ge subterminal white 

 spots, chiefly on the inner webs ; two lateral white spots on the 

 throat ; breast blackish grey with isabelline spots ; abdomen ochrace- 

 ous buff or nearly ferruginous with blackish bars ; under wing- 

 coverts ferruginous, the smaller barred, the longer uniform. Total 

 length about 11 inches, wing 7'8, tail 5"7, tarsus 0'7. 



The specimens without white spots to the rectrices are probably 

 females. 



The heavier rufous bars to the primaries, want of distinct white 

 spots to the outer rectrices, indistinct white throat-spots, and paler 

 colour are signs of immaturity. 



The white spots on the primaries varj' in size, and sometimes 

 disappear on the fourth primary. 



Hab. South Africa and Abyssinia. 



a. S ad. sk. Rustenburg, E. Transvaal, May 27. Gurney Coll. 



b. Imm. sk. Cunene River, Daniara-laud, June Sharpe Coll. 



25 [Aiidersson) . 



c. ? ad. sk. S. Afi-ica. Sir A. Smith [C.]. 



(Type of the species.) 



9. Caprimulgus macrurus. 



Javan Goatsucker, Lath. Gen. Hist. B. vii. p. 336 (1823). 



Caprimulgus macrourus, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Sue. xiii. p. 142 (1821 ; 

 Java); Jerd. III. Ind. Orn. no. 24, note (1847); Blyth, Cat. B. 

 Mus. As. Sue. p. 83 (1849) ; id. Ibis, 1866, p. 341 ; Bp. Consp. i. 

 p. 60 (1850) ; Horsf. ^- Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. I. Co. i. p. 112 

 (1854) ; Graxj, P. Z. S. 1859, p. 154 (Dorey) ; Cab. ^ Heine, Mus. 

 Hein. iii. p. 89 (1860) ; Jerd. B. Ind. p. 195 (1802) ; Wall. P. Z. S. 

 1863, pp. 22 (Malay Archipel.), 484 ; Pinsch, Neu-Guinea, p. 162 

 (1865) ; Gould, B. Austral, ii. pi. ix. ; id. Handb. B. Austral, i. 

 p. 100 (1865); Koeniff-Warth. J. f. O. 1808, p. 378 (nidif.) ; 

 Gra>/, Hmd-l. i. p. 57 (1869) ; Beavan, Ibis, 1869, p. 406 ; Walden, 

 Ibis, 1874, p. 131 (Audamans) ; Hume, Stray F. ii. p. 469 (Tenas- 

 serim) (1874) ; id. Stray F. iii. p. 46 (18t5), viii. p. 48 (1879; 

 Malay Penins.), xi. p. 39 (1888; Manipur); Sulvad. Ucc. Borneo, 

 p. 117 (1874) ; id. Orn. Papuas. i. p. 528 (1880) ; A. B. Meijer, Sitzb. 

 k. Ak. Wissensch. Wien, 1874, pp. 9, 210 (New Guinea) ; Ramsay, 

 P. Z. S. 1875, pp.11 3 (eg-g), 581 ( N.E. Queensland) ; Hume ^- Davi- 

 son, Stray F. vi. p. 58 ( 1878 ; Tenasseiim ) ; Cripps, Stray F. vii. 

 p. 258 (1878; Furreedpore) ; Sharpe, Journ. Linn. Sue. xiii. p. 493 

 (1878 ; New Guinea) ; id. Ibis, 1879, p. 250 (Borneo) ; id. P. Z. S. 

 1879, p. 332 (Labuan); id. Ibis, 1888, p. 198 (Palawan), 1890, 

 p. 22 ; Binyh. Stray F. ix. p. 150 (1880 ; Tenasserim) ; Layard, 

 Ibis, 1880, p. 298 (Duke of York J.) ; Kelham, Ibis, 1881, p. '376; 

 Aug. Miill. J. f. O. 1882, p. 403 (Salauga) ; Vorderm. Nat. 

 Tijdschr. Nederl. Ind.e, 1883, j). 57 ; Oates, B. Burm. ii. p. 20 

 (1883); id. ed. Hume's Nests 4'- Egys Ind. B. iii. p. 45 (1890); 

 A. B. Meyer, Ztitschr. yes. Orn. 1884, p. l'J7 (Timorlaut) ; 



