564 CAPRIMULGIDiE. 



A second specimen, Mithout white patches to the outer rectriccs, 

 is probably a female. 



Hub. Only found in Sennaar by Dr. Riippell, and never procured 

 since. Specimens are in the Frankfort and Leyden Museupis. 



26. Caprimulgus natalensis. 



Caprimulgus natalensis, Smith, III. Zoul. S. Afr., Birch, pi. 99 

 (1845); Bj). CoH^j}. i. p. (iO(18oO); Cass. Cat. Caprim. Ac. Nat. 

 So. Philad. p. 3 (1851) ; Gurnei/, Ibis, 1859, p. 243, 1860, p. 204 

 (Natal) ; id. Ibis, 1868, p. lol ; Gm;i, Hand-l. i. p. 58 (1869) ; 

 Finsch c^- Hartl. Vdq. O.-Afr. p. 122 (1870) ; Shaiye, ed. Layard^s 

 B. S. Afr. p. 88 (1873). 



Adult male. A narrow line on the forehead and supraloral streak 

 isabelline ; centre of the crown black, streaked with clear brown ; 

 the sides of the crown mixed with silvery grey ; back and rump 

 deep chocolate with reddish-brown spots ; scapulars and wing- 

 coverts lighter and darker brown mixed with blackish ; central 

 rectriccs blackish brown, crossed by darker-speckled light bars ; 

 two outer rectriccs on each side blackish at base, about the terminal 

 half (a little more on the first and a little less on the second) of the 

 inner web and often the whole of the outer white, shaded with 

 isabelline on the external edges ; primaries deep chocolate-brown, 

 ochraceous buif near the base of the inner web, with large white 

 spots tinged with sandy buff on the margins on the first four ; a 

 large white spot on the throat, lower throat blackish brown with 

 deep sandy-buff spots ; breast deep sandy buff, barred with brown ; 

 lower abdomen and under tail-coverts uniform. Total length about 

 9 inches, wing 6'4, bill 4'2, tarsus 0-8, unfeathered to almost the 

 whole of its length. 



Adult female. Similar to the male ; but distinguishable by the 

 back and rump being a little paler, by the spots on the primaries 

 being smaller and sandy buff, and followed by another sandy- 

 coloured spot nearer to the base. The spot on the throat is also not 

 pure white ; and the outer tail-feathers are brown, barred with dull 

 or brownish sandy buff. 



Mab. S.E. Africa, reoccurring on the Gold Coast. 



a,b.(S; c, d. 2 Natal {Ay res). Sharpe Coll. 



ad. sk. 



e. c? ad. ; /. d Natal (McKen). Shelley Coll. 



imm. sk. 



g, h. S ad. sk. Port Natal. Sir A. Smith. 



(Types of the species.) 



i, k- 6 ? ad. sk. Pinetown, Natal, May, June SheUey Coll. 



{Ay res). 



I. c? ad. sk. Ninquah, Dec. Shelley Coll. 



m. cj' ad. sk. Christiausborg, Gold Coast, Jan. Shelley Coll. 



Subsp. a. Caprimulgus fulviventris, 



Caprimulgus fulviventris, Hartl. J.f. 0. p. 102 (Angola). 

 Caprimulgus accrse, Shelley, Ibis, 1875, p. 379 (Accra). 



This is merely a northern form of (?. luilalensis, but is less 



