542 



CAi'UiMci.cnDj;. 



10. Caprimulgus atripennis. 



Caprimulgus atripennis, Jerd. III. hid. 0/7?. pi. 24 (letterpress) 

 (1847); id. B. hid. i. p. 196 (1862); Koldsw. P. Z. S. 1872, 

 p. 421 (Ceylon) ; Legge, 'ibis, 1874, p. 12 ; id. B. Veijlon, i. p. 340 

 (1878) ; Ball, Stray F. vii. p. 203 (1878;' Godaverv); Butl. Stray 

 F. ix. p. 380 (1880; Mahratta) ; Parker, Stray F. ix. p. 477 

 (1880) ; Davison, Stray F. x. p. 349 (M^'sore) ; Macgregor, t. c. 

 p. 436 (Mahratta) ; Saloiti, Cat. Strickl. Coll. p. 377 (1882j ; 

 Barnes, J. Bombay N. H. Soc. iv. pi. i. (1889 : egg tig.) ; Oates, ed. 

 Humes Nests Sr Eggs hid. B. iii. p. 47 (1890). 



Caprimulgus .spilocercus. Gray, List Fissir. Brit. Mus. p. 7 (1848); 

 Hume, Stray F. 1873, p. 4.32. 



Caprimulgus inabarattensis, Kelaart {nee Sykes), Prodromus Cat. 

 p. 117 (18-52) ; Layard, Ann. Sf Mag. Nat. Hist. 18o3, xii. p. 166. 



Adult male. Top of the head cinereous brown, finely stippled with 

 paler greyish brown, centre of the crown and upper part of the hind 

 neck with black mesial streaks ; hiud neck with a deep ferruginous 

 hue forming a kind of indistinct collar ; back and rump darker than 

 the head, with distinct blackish shaft-stripes ; scapulars brilliantly 

 marked with large velvety blackish-brown spots and rich buff bars 

 and margins ; first primary with a white spot on the inner web, nob 

 extending to the shaft ; second quill with an interrupted white 

 bar on both shafts, sometimes obsolete on the outer web ; third 



