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CAPRIMULGID^. 



the third and fourth with a round white spot on the outer web ; 

 throat blackish brown, with rusty rufous spots and a very large 

 white spot on each side ; breast black and greyish ; under wing- 

 coverts, tarsus, abdomen, thighs, and lower tail-coverts rusty, with 

 blackish bars ; tail above grey, wdth black bars and vermiculations ; 

 tail below blackish brown, with pale rusty cross bars. Total length 

 about 13 inches, wing 10, tail 6'2. 



Young. Feathers of the upper parts mottled brown and grey at 

 the bases, about the terminal half or more rufous, with a black spot 

 in the middle ; lower parts buff, irregularly barred with deep brown 

 and strongly shaded with rufous. 



Hah. Australia and New Guinea. 



a. Pull. sk. Australia. Linnean Soc. (Type 



of C. (juttatus, Vig. & Horsf.) 



h. Pull. sk. [Australia.] Piu-chased. 



c. Imm. st. Australia. Purchased. 



<^-</- S $ ad. sk. Australia. Tweeddale Coll. 



h, i. cS ad. sk. Brisbane (Cockerel/). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



k. Ad. St. Woody Wallis Island. Earl of Derby [P.]. 



2. Eurostopus argus. 



Fichtel's Goatsucker, Lath. Gen. Hist. vii. p. 345. 



Eurostopodus guttatus, Gould {nee Vig. Sf Horsf.), P. Z. S. 1837, 



p. 142 ; Grai/, List Fissirdstr. p. 11 (1848) ; Bp. Consp. i. p. 62 



(18-)0); Cass. Cat. Cajn: Mus. Philad. p. 12 (1851); Gould, B. 



Austr. ii. pb 8 (1848) ; id. Handb. B. Austr. i. p. 96 (1865) ; Gray, 



Hnnd-l. i. p. 62 (1869) ; Bamsa)/, Proe. Linn. Soc. N. S. W. ii. 



p. 128(1877); Salvad. Orn. Papuas.i.^. 531 (1880); North, Nests 



8)- Efufs Austr. B. pi. xi. fig. 2 (1890). 

 Caprimulgus albogularis, Schleg. {nee Vig. Sf Horsf.') Ned, Tijdsehr. 



Dierk. iii. p. 340 (1860 ; Aru). 

 Caprimulgus argus, Rosenb. Reis- naar Zuidoostereil. p. 37 (descr. 



nulla) (1867; Aru). 

 Caprimulgus guttatus, Thienem. Fortpjl. ges. Vog. pi. xUi. fig. 21 



(1854) ; Koenig-Warth. J.f. O. 1868, p. 377 (nidification). 

 Eurostopus albogularis, Salvad. {nee Vig. c^- Horsf.) Ann. Mus. Civ. 



Gen. X. p. 311 (1877). 

 Eurostopus guttatus, Salvad. Anti. Mus. Civ. Gen. xii. p. 321 (1878) ; 



D'Alb. Si- Salvad. ibid. xiv. p. 55 (1879). 



Adult. Distinguished from E. alhir/ularin by its smaller size and its 

 uuiform rusty lower abdomen and under tail-coverts, smaller under 

 wing-coverts and tarsus ; first primary with a round white spot on 

 the inner web, the following three with increasing white spots on 

 both webs ; the colour of the upper surface varies much, being 

 sometimes very pale grey, sometimes quite rufous, sometimes darker ; 

 the rusty rufous collar on the neck is sometimes very distinct, 

 sometimes rather obsolete. Total length about 12 inches, wing 8"8, 

 tail 6-4. 



Hab. Australia, Aru Islands, and probably New Ireland. 



a. Ad. St. Australia. Purchased. 



6. Ad. sk. AustraHa. E.Rishton, Esq. [P.]. 



c, d. (^ 2 ad. sk. Australia. Tweeddale Coll. 



