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on the tips ; primaries deep brown, the outer webs spotted or 

 banded with brownish buff; inner webs white along the inner 

 margin, this colour forming deep sinuations not quite reaching the 

 shaft and leaving the tips dark for one or two inches ; two white 

 spots on the throat ; abdomen pale sandy isabelline, narrowly barred 

 with blackish, becoming more or less uniform on the lower abdomen 

 and under tail-coverts, the longest of which generally again show 

 distinct bars. Total length about 10-5 inches, wing 7'6 to 8-'J, tail 

 5-1, tarsus 0-8, the latter not feathered in front except on the 

 uppermost part. 



The female does not differ from the male. 



younger birds are more rnfous in colour, but otherwise do not 

 differ from adult specimens. 



Some specimens are more isabelline than others, but no local form 

 is recognizable. 



Hah. From Algiers and Tunis to Egypt and Nubia; from Kras- 

 nowodsk on the Caspian Sea throughout Turkestan, Afghanistan, 

 and Baluchistan. It has occurred as a straggler on Malta and 

 Sicily, and has been shot once in England and also on Heligoland. 



a. Ad. sk. Egypt. Purchased. 



b. c5' imm. sk. Egyjjt, April 6. Shelley Coll. 



c. S ad. sk. Fuyoom, March 4. Shelley Coll. 



d. e. S ad. sk. Fifth Cataract of the Nile. Sir F.Galton [P.]. 

 f. Ad. sk. Abyssinia. Old Coll. 



ff, h. 5 ad. sk. Fao, Persian Gulf, Aug. 26. W. D. Cummino- 



Esq. [P.] 

 'r. Aitchi.si 

 I, >». c? 2 ad. sk. Lower Oxus, Aug., Oct. ' Dr. Severtzoff [C 



i, k. (^ 2 ad. sk. Tirphul, N. Afghanistan, April. Dr. Aitchi.son [C.l 



25, Caprimulgus eximius. 



Caprimulgus eximius, Temm. PL Col. 398 (e.v Eiipp. MS.) (1826) ; 

 Eupp. Si/st. Uebers. p. 22 (1845); Bj). Consp. i. p. 60 (1850); 

 Heugl. Journ.f. Orn. 1864, p. 254; id. Orn. N.O.-Afr. i. p. 130 

 (1869); Hartert, Katal. Vogels. Mus. Senck. p. 121 (1891)- id 

 Ibis, 1892, p. 279, pi. vi. 



Adult. Above golden buff, almost chestnut-buff on the back and 

 rump, all the feathers ornamented with white bars or spots, which 

 are speckled with black ; quills brown, with chestnut-butf bars and 

 large white spots to the first three primaries ; upper wing-eoverts 

 like the back, edged with whitish ; rectrices pale chestnut-buff with 

 whitish bars, which are speckled wath black, outer ones with uniform 

 blackish-brown bars, the two outermost on each side with lar^e 

 white terminal patches ; throat and breast like the upper parts, the 

 greater part of the throat occupied by a large, almost triangular spot 

 of silky white ; abdomen very pale isabelline buff, becoming whitish 

 on the uuder tail-coverts ; under wing-coverts buff ; rectrices under- 

 neath pale buff' with blackish bars ; the bases of all the feathers 

 blackish : bill and legs pale. Total length about 9-5 inches, wing 7, 

 tail 4-5, tarsus about 0-7, culmen 0-4. (Described from a typical 

 specimen in the Frankfort Museum.) 



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