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1 Si. Capriraulgus fossii. 



Capriuiulgus mozambiquus, Licht. Nomencl. p. 62 (1854) (descr. 

 nulla). 



Caprimiilgus fossii, Hartl. Oni. W.-Afr. p. 2.3 (ex Verr. MS.) 

 (18.57 ; Gaboon) ; id. Abh. natunu. Ver. Bremen, xii. p. 32 (1891) ; 

 Gray, Hand-l. i. p. 57 (1869) ; Finsch S,- Hartl. J'ocf. O.-Afr. p. 123, 

 pi. i. (1870) ; S'harpe, Ibis, 1872, p. 66 ; Rekhen. J. / 0. 1875, 

 pp. 20, 49 (W. Afr.) ; id. J. f. O. 1877, p. 21 (Loango) ; id. J. f. O. 

 1889, p. 277 (E. Afr.) ; Cab. J. f. 0. 1878, p. 236 (£. Afr.) ; 

 Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. 1878, p. 266 (Angola), 1880, p. 101 ; id. Orn. 

 Angola, p. 152 (1881) ; Fisch. c^ Reichen. J. f. O. 1879, p. 256 

 (Zanzibar) ; Solub ^ Pelz. Beitr. Orn. Siidafr. p. 53 (1882) ; 

 Fischer, Zeitschr. ges. Orn. 1884, p. 359 (Masai). 



Caprimulgus sp., Monteiro, Ibis, 1862, p. 3-36. 



Caprimiilgus welwitscliii, Bocage, Jorn. Lisb. p. 133 (1867). 



Caprimulgus mossambicus, Peters, J. f. 0. 1868, p. 134 ; Grai/, 

 IIa7id-l. i. p. 57 (1869) ; Sharpe, ed. Bayard's B. S. Afr. p. 88 

 (1875); She/ley, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 564 (E. Afr.); id. Ibis, 1882, 

 p. 240; id. Ibis, 1888, p. 298; Gurney, Ibis, 1882, p. 71; Bohm, 

 J.f. O. 1883, p. 176 (Int. E. Afr.) ; Schalow, J.f. O. 1883, p. 352 ; 

 Symonds, Ibis, 1887, p. 327 (Orange Free State). 



Adult male. Head above mottled greyish brown, with bold black 

 longitudinal stripes ; a broad, deep, golden-buff semi-collar with 

 black streaks and spots across the hind neck ; back and rump 

 mottled with pale brownish and blackish : scapulars with Lirge 

 triangular black spots and ochraceous-buff longitudinal stripes ; 

 primaries deep brown with large white spots ; secondaries spotted 

 with ferruginous and broadly tipped with white; rectrices dark 

 brown, with pale brown inner margins and mottled with pale brown ; 

 central rectrices tinged with grey, lateral rectrices with white 

 outer webs and broad white tips ; a large white spot on each side 

 of the throat ; breast mottled and spotted brown and isabelliue ; 

 abdomen orange-buff, barred with brown, lower abdomen uniform 

 orange-buff; under wing-coverts deep orange- buff. Total length 

 about 10 inches, wing 5-8 to 6-4, tail 4-7 to 5-2. 



Adult female. Similar to the male, but the spots on the primaries 

 not pure white, clear rusty on the outer webs above and tinted 

 with rusty below ; lateral tail-feathers with the outer webs and 

 tips not white, but isabcUine-buff like the tips of the secondaries. 



Young birds are more of a greyish colour above. 



There is no difference between Western and Eastern specimens, 

 but the bird varies a great deal in the same localities. 



Rab. Western and Eastern Africa : from the Gold Coast to 

 Benguela and on the East coast down as far as the Zambesi. 



a. S ad. sk. Cape Lopez, Gaboon. P. B. Du ChaiUu 



[C.]. 



b. d ; c. 2 ad. sk. Gaboon, June (Skertchly). Shai-pe CoD. 



d. Imm. sk. Ogowe River (A. Marche). M. A. Bouvier [P.]. 



e,f. 2 ad. sk. Landana, Congo (Petit). Shehey Coll. 



(/. d ad. sk. Lower Congo. Commander Sperliu"- 



[P.]. 

 A. cfad.sk. Quilombo, Angola (.-1. i/eft;"/*). Sharpe Coll. 



