576 CAPIUMPLGID.K. 



with whitish spots before the tips, the shafts remaining blackish : 

 primaries deep brown, paler and mottled near the tips, barred 

 with cinnamon across both webs ; secondaries similarly coloured, but 

 much mottled with rufous ; rectrices deep brown, spotted with pale 

 rufous, uniform towards the tips and broadly tipped with pure white 

 (central pair absent, probably concolorous with the upper parts) ; 

 lores and cheeks rufous, minutely freckled with dusky ; a broad 

 band of white across the throat ; the breast of the same colour as 

 the scapulars ; shaft-streaks deep brown ; abdomen and lower tail- 

 coverts banded with dark brown and pale rufous, pale buff towards the 

 tips ; under wing-coverts barred with deep brown and light brown ; 

 bases of all the feathers slate-colour. Total length about S-o inches, 

 wing 4-25, tail about 3-8, tarsus 0-65, middle toe with claw 0-77, 

 culmen 0-3 ; rictal bristles more than twice as long as the bill. 

 Feet pale (in skin): " iris dark brown " (Gaumer). 



This very distinct species has no very near ally. The longitudinal 

 spots of the head alone are sufficient to distinguish it from C. ocel- 

 latus, which is perhaps the nearest species. 



Hah. Yucatan. 



a. 5 ad. sk. Tizimin, Yucatan, June 10 {G. Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 F. Gaumer). (Type of the species.) 



39. Capriinulgus binotatus. 



Capriuiulgus binotatus, Bp. t'oDnp. i. ]). 60 (iS.jQ, ex Temm. MS.): 

 Hartl. J.f. O. 1855, p. ;35o ; id. Oni. JF.-Afr. p. 22 (1857). 



Adult male (?). Colour deep brownish black : head, neck, back, 

 rump, upper tail-coverts, wing-coverts, throat, breast, and sides of the 

 neck irregularly barred with very narrow and numerous bands of 

 rusty red ; cheeks and ear-coverts finely verraiculated with pale rusty ; 

 the abdomen more regularly varied with slightly broader vermicula- 

 tions ; under tail-coverts still more broadly barred with deep brown 

 and buif ; a pi:re white spot on each side of the throat ; under wing- 

 coverts nearly uniform brown ; quills uniform deep brown on the inner 

 webs, spotted with rufous on the outer webs ; tail almost square, 

 blackish brown, irregularly and narrowly barred with rusty red ; 

 no white on the tail. Wing 6 inches, tail 4-1. 



A very singular species, which has no near ally. The tail seems 

 to be emarginate. 



Hah. Dabocrom, Gold Coast (J/«-?. Leyden). 



40. CaprimuIo;us concretus. 



Caprimulgus concretus, Bp. Consp. i. p. 60 (1850, ex Temm. MS.) ; 



Hartl. Orn. TV.-Afr. p. 22, note (1857) ; Schleff. Handl. Dierk. i. 



p. 222 (] 857) ; Salvad. Uec. Borneo, p. 118 (1874) ; Sharpe, P. Z. S. 



1875, p. 100, pi. xxii. %. 2 (Borneo); id. Ibis, 1879, p. 250; 



Vorderm. Nat. Tidjschr. Nederl. Ind. p. 45 (1890); Biittik. Not. 



Leyd. Mus. xiii. p. '125 (1891). 

 Caprimulgus, sp., Scl. P. Z. S. 1863, p. 212 (Banjermassing). 



