1. CAPRIMULGUS. 



543 



quill with a generally interrupted bar, fourth with a continuous 

 white bar extendino; over the shaft as a rule ; wing-coverts with 

 many pale buff and rufous-buff spots and bars ; chiii and sides of 

 the head mottled blackish brown and fulvous ; ear-coverts more or 

 less golden rufous-buff : a narrow whitish-buff stripe under the eye 

 a very large white spot on the throat, its lower edge with deep 

 velvety-black terminal and isabelline-buff subterminal spots or bars • 

 chest and upper breast rufous-grey with fine darker vermiculations' 

 the former otten much rufous, the latter mostly with large iiale buff 

 spots on Its lower edge ; beneath this the lower surface is fulvous 

 barred with blackish brown ; rectrices deep brown with interrupted 

 tulvous bars, central pair coloured like the back, outer pair white on 

 the tips, outer web of this white space more or less tinged with 

 isabelhne or spotted with greyish brown. Total length about 10-8 

 inches, wing 7 to 7-2, tail o-l, tarsus 07, covered with feathers in 

 iront except on the lowest part. 



Adult female. In general appearance entirely similar to the male 

 but the spots to the primaries buff and on the "fourth quill obsolete • 

 two lateral rectrices with more or less pure buff" tips. 



Young. Paler, and the dark markings less pure and less distinct • 

 the white spots in the young male well developed on the outer 

 rectrices, but shaded with buff and smaller on the quills first quill 

 only with an indication of it. 



The depth of coloration differs somewhat, as it does in almost all 

 the species of Capiimulyus, but I have not seen any remarkable 

 variations. 



Hab. Ceylon and Southern India, somewhat locally distributed. 



a, b. ^ ad. sk. 



c. cT ad. sk. 



d. (j" imm. sk. 

 e,.f,(;- 6 ad. et 



juv. ; /*. Pull. 



sk. 

 i. (S ad. sk. 

 k. 2 ad. sk. 



Ceylon. 

 Ceylon. 

 Ceylon. 

 Ceylon (H. Nevill). 



Ceylon {E. W. Hddsworth). 

 Ceylon. 



Hume Coll. 

 Purchased. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



Tweeddale Coll. 



T. Thwaites, Esq. 



1% 



Col. Vincent Lefffe 



[P.]. ^^ 



A. Whyte,Esq.[C.]. 



/, m. cS ad.; n. Ceylon, June, Oct. 



2 ad. sk. 



o, p, q. J ad. et Central Province, Ceylon. 



imm. sk. 



r. c? ad. sk South India. Tweeddale Coll. 



.', t. 2 ad. sk. Wynaad, April, Oct. ( JV. Davi- Hume Coll. 



S07l). 



u. 6 ad. sk. Kotagherry, Nilghiris, April 15 Hume Coll. 



{Miss Cockburn). 



11. Caprimulgus andamanicus. 



? Caprimulgus asiaticus, Tytl. .f Beamn, Ibis, 1867, p .318 • Tinli 

 '•■itrai/ F. 1873, -p. 5i5. 'V-^^^,iiaU, 



Caprimulgus andamanicu.s, Hume, Sir. F. 1873 n 470 la-r. 

 pp. 16l', 493. ' , p. 4/U, 1874, 



