538 CAl'RIMTJLGlDiE. 



Hartert, J. f. 0. 1889, p. 424 (N.VV. Sumatra); Whiteh. Ibis, 



1800, p. 46 (Borneo) ; Sfeere, Lid li. e^j- Mamin. Exp. rhilippine.', 



p. 12 (1890 ; rarag-iia). 

 Capriiuulgus schlegelii, Grni/, Iland-l. i. p. 57 (1869; Aru, New 



Guinea). 

 Canriniiilgus salvadorii, Skarpe, P. Z.S. 1875, p. 99, pi. xxii. tig. 1 ; 



il. Ibis, 1877, p. 4 (Borneo). 



Adult male. Upper surface pale brown, finely vermiculated with 

 greyish, especially on the top of the head ; centre of crown longi- 

 tudinally streaked with brownish black ; an indistinct fulvous bund 

 across the hind neck ; back and rump marked with deep brown ; 

 scapulars and wing-covcrts with more or less bright buff patches, 

 the former mostly velvety brownish black ; first piimary deep 

 brown, a largo white spot on the inner web and a broad white 

 patch across both webs of the next three primaries, often an indica- 

 tion of a white spot on the fifth quill ; secondaries deep brown, with 

 narrow interrupted rufous bars ; the two outer pairs of rectrices 

 largely tipped with white, these white tips varying in extent, 

 generally being about 2 inches in length ; chin and sides of the 

 throat rufous-brown, finely barred with blackish brown ; throat 

 with a very large white spot, bordered at the lower part with deep 

 black ; abdomen rufous-buff, barred with brown. Total length 

 about 11-5 inches, wing 7'1 to 7'8 (about 7'o on an average), tail 

 5-6 to 6-3, tarsus 0-7, feathered in front for almost its whole 

 length. 



Adult female. Differs from the adult male in having the outer 

 web of the first primary spotted with rufous, in having pale rufous 

 marks on the primaries instead of white ones, in the tips to the 

 outer rectrices being less in extent and tinged with buff or rufous, 

 speckled with brown on the tip of the outer web. 



Young. The markings are less developed in younger individuals ; 

 the young male has the white patches on the primaries and rectrices 

 tinged with rufous and less in extent. The nestling is covered with 

 buffy down. 



This Goatsucker varies in colour to a certain extent like most of 

 its congeners. \Vhile the specimens which occur from the Malay 

 Peninsula to Australia may be regarded as typical forms, those from 

 Eurmah and Assam are generally larger and paler and may be con- 

 sidered to be intermediate between G. maerurus and C. albonotatus. 

 Some specimens from the latter countries are nearer to typical 

 specimens of C. maerurus, while others approach the Western form. 

 The white tips to the outer rectrices are generally longer in 

 C. albonotatus, but in two examples from New Britain they are 

 longer than in any specim.eus of C. albonotatus from India, being 

 2-6 inches in length, Australian specimens are very small, and 

 those from the Malay Archipelago are almost e(jually small. 



Hah. The typical form is found in Queensland and Northern 

 Australia, many of the Papuan Islands, throughout the Malay 

 Archipelago, in Cochin China, Siam, the Malay Peninsula, and 

 Tenasserim. Specimens from Tenasserim, Burmah, Assam, and 

 Manipur are more or less allied to C. albonotntus, which, in fact, is 

 merely a Western subspecies of G. maerurus. 



