550 



CAPRIMULGIDJE. 



spots on both margins ; outermost tail-feather white, shaded with 

 brown towards the tip of the outer web, and sometimes on the 

 tip of the inner web (the purer white being a sign of old 

 age) ; second tail-feather white, with a shade of brown on the 

 tip of the outer web, and spotted deep brown and fulvous near 

 the base of the inner web, this colour being more restricted in 

 older individuals ; lower surface pale fulvous, narrowly bunded 

 with brown ; two white spots on the throat, large buii' spots on 

 the lircast ; lower abdomen and lower tail-coverts uniform pale 

 fulvous buflF. Total length about 9 inches, wing 6*3 to 6*4, tail 3'8, 

 tarsus 0"7, unfeathered. 



Adult fnnale. Differs from the male in having no white whatever 

 on the tail, the rectrices being banded with pale rufous grey and dark 

 brown, paler on the tips. 



The spots on the throat vary in size in both sexes and are some- 

 times almost confluent, often not pure white but buff, this latter 

 colour being apparently a sign of immaturity, as also is the buff 

 colour of the white patches on the primaries. 



Hah. Sumatra, Java, Lombock, Sumbawa, Timor, Celebes, and 

 Borneo. 



a. 2 ad. sk. 



b, c. c? 5 ad. sk. 



d. Ad. St. 



e. 2 sk. 



/-/. 6 ; m-p. $ 



ad. sk. 

 q. c? sk. 

 r. Imm. sk. 

 s. J ad. sk. 

 t. Skeleton. 



Java {Dr. Horsfeld). 



Java. 



Sumatra. 



Sumatra (^Sir S. Raffles). 



Lombock. 



E. Timor {A. R. Wallace). 

 Celebes (A. B. Meyer). 

 Banjermassing, Borneo {Motley). 

 Java. 



India Museum. 

 (Tj'pe of species.) 

 Gould Coll. 

 Purchased. 

 India Museum. 

 Wallace CoU. 



Tweeddale Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Tweeddale Coll. 

 Purchased. 



17. Caprinmlgus griseatus. (Plate XI.) 



Caprimulgus gi-iseatus, G. R. Gray, Hand-I. i. p. 57, no. 620 (1869; 

 Philippines) (descr. nulla); Walden, Trans. Zool. Soc. ix. p. 159 

 (1875) ; Tu-eedd. P. Z. S. 1877, p. 691 (Luzon; descr. princeps) ; 

 EtUter, J.f. O. 1882, p. 176 {e^§). 



Adult male. General colour above almost similar to that of the 

 allied C. affinis, but a little more greyish. The lower parts are 

 somewhat more finely barred and the bars are spread over the 

 whole of the lower abdomen and thighs. The white patches on 

 the primaries are larger and occupy about half an inch of the outer 

 web of the second primary ; the outermost rectrices have the 

 basal part of the inner web pale ferruginous, banded with dark 

 brown. Wing 6*4 inches, tail 4. 



Female. Unknown. 



Hah. Island of Luzon, N. Philippines. 



a. S ad. sk. Philippines. 



b, c. S ad. sk. 



San Mateo, Luzon, Feb. 

 {Ercrett). 



Purchased. (Type of 



the s]iecies. ) 

 Tweeddale Coll. 



