544: CAPRIMULGIDiE. 



Adult male. In general appearance similar to C. otripennis, hut 

 the top of the head finely but distinctly barred, its ground-colour 

 more greyish and the black streaks bolder, more numerous, and not 

 confined to the centre of the crown ; lower parts darker ; spots on 

 the primaries often not pure white, being shaded with rufous from 

 above, the spots smaller and well developed on the first three or 

 sometimes four primaries ; the white tips to the outer rectrices a 

 little smaller ; upper wing-coverts very conspicuously spotted with 

 rufous-buff. In size similar to C. atripemiis. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but with only narrow rufous 

 bands and spots to the primaries, without the larger pale patches, 

 whereas in the female of C. atri^jeniiis buff patches are well- 

 developed on the first three primaries. The patch on the throat is 

 buff instead of white, the pale tips of the outer rectrices smaller and 

 buft' instead of white. 



JIah. Confined to the Andaman Islands. 



a. cJ ad. sk. Jolly Boys' Island, S. Andamans, Hume Coll. 



March 8 (.4. O. H.). (Type of the species.) 



b, c. 2 fid. sk. Sound Island, S. Andamans, April Hume Coll. 



(IF. Barmm). 

 d, e. d 2 ad. sk. Port Blair, May ( JV. Davison). Hume Coll. 



/, ff, h. 5 ad. sk. S. .Andaman, Feb., June, July {R. Tweeddale Coll. 



J. Wimberley). 

 i. $ ad. sk. S. Andaman, April (R. G. W. R.). Tweeddale Coll. 



h. 2 ad. sk. Andamans, March 10 {R. G. W. R.). Tweeddale Coll. 



/. (S ad. sk. Stewart's Sound, Middle Andaman, Tweeddale Coll. 



April 3 (R. G. W. R.). 



12. Caprimulgus manilensis. 



Caprimulgus manillensis, G. R. Gray, List Fissirnstres Brit. Mns. 



p. 7, no. 11, " Manilla," descr. nulla ! (1848) ; id. Hand-l. p. 57, 



no. 637 (1869). 

 ? Caprimulj;us macrurus. Martens, J.f. 0. 1866, p. 19 (Philippines). 

 Caprimulgus manillensis, Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc. ix. pp. 160, 410 



(1875) ; Ticeedd. P. Z. S. 1878, p. 635 (Mindanao); id. P. Z. S. 



1879, p. 69 (Basilan) ; Wliife/i. Ibis, 1890, p. 46; Steere, List B. 



Sf- Mamm. Exped. PMlipp. p. 12 (1890). 



Adult male. Above dark greyish brown, with bold blackish streaks 

 along the crown, becoming broader to the tips of the feathers ; 

 smaller secondaries and scapulars more or less greyish, the latter 

 with large blackish spots and pale rufous bars or spots ; wing- 

 coverts si)otted with buflf; primaries deep blackish brown, the first 

 with a small huffish- white spot on the inner border of the inner web, 

 the second with a larger white spot on the same place and an indica- 

 tion of it on the outer -web, the third with distinct but separated 

 spots on both webs, the fourth with a connected spot across both 

 webs ; behind the ear-coverts a rufous-buff patch ; a large white 

 spot on the throat, the tips of these white feathers velvety black ; 

 abdomen brownish buff, barred with dark brown, but not so 

 regularly as in 0. macrurus, the broader buff tips of the feathers 



