578 CAPRIMULGTD.^. 



Younq. A specimen with many signs of immaturity is much 

 darker, "especially on the head, throat, breast, and abdomen, but 

 the tail shows already the white tips of adult specimens. 



Hah. Eastern parts of Madagascar. 



a b. Ad. sk. S.E. Madsigascar. Ciossley Coll. 



' ' ' (Types of the species.) 



c. $ (?) ad. ; d. Madagascar. Purchased. 



Imm. sk. 



42. Caprimulgus ocellatus. 



Caprimulgus ocellatus, Tsch. Wifgrn. Arch. 1844, p. 2(]8 ; id. Faun. 

 Peruau., Aves, pi. v. (1846). 



Salv. Nomencl. Av. Neotr. p. 96 (1873) ; Salvin, Cat. Strickl. Coll. 

 p. 379 (1882) ; Tacz. Orn. Perou, i. p. 215 (1884). 

 Nyctiphrynus ocellatus, Gray, Hand-l. i. p. 59 (1869). 



Adult. Above dark rufous-brown or deep chocolate-brown, very 

 finely sprinkled or almost powdered with paler rufous ; some more 

 or less concealed buffy spots on the hind neck ; scapulars with 

 rounded velvety black spots before the tips, each surrounded by a 

 rufous ring ; some of the upper wing-coverts with more or less 

 concealed pale buff spots near the tips ; primaries deep brown, with 

 rufous spots to the outer web only ; secondaries with rufous spots 

 to the inner webs also ; central pair of rectrices similar in colour to 

 the upper surface, with narrow, often indistinct bars of blackish ; 

 four outer pairs of rectrices deep brown, spotted with rufous on the 

 basal part, tipped with white for about 0-2 to 0-3 inch, a little 

 broader on the outer ones : lower parts similar in colour to the 

 upper surface ; a band of pure white across the throat ; breast- 

 feathers more dislinctly powdered and narrowly fringed with sandy 

 buff, forming a kind of shield ; feathers of the abdomen with a 

 white or huffy- white spot near the tip, and some indistinct buff bars 

 on the lower tail-coverts and lower wing-coverts. Total length 

 about 8-5 inches, wing 5, tail 4-7, tarsus 0-65. 



Younger birds are more variegated on the top of the head, and 

 more spotted with buff or white on the upper wing-coverts and 

 abdomen. 



Hab. Brazil, Peru, and Ecuador. 



a. Ad. sk. South America. Purchased. 



b. Ad. sk. Brazil. Gould Coll. 



c. d, e. Ad. sk. Brazil. Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 /. Ad. .sk. Brazil (Natterer). Sclater Coll. 



^. cJ ad. sk. Bah'ia. (Wucherer). Sclater Coll. 



/i-l. Ad.sk. Sarayacu, Ecuador (C. .SMeZ;/e?/). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



