3. ^GOTHELES. 647 



Caprimulgus psilopterus, Fimch, Neu-Guinea, p. 162 (1865). 

 ^gotheles criuifrons, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Genov. vii. p. 766 (1875), 

 X. p. 309 (1877) ; id. Orn. Papuas. i. p. 521 (1880). 



Adult. Above bright cinnamon-rufous ; before and behind the 

 eye some more or less pure white feathers with blackish tips ; 

 some of the scapulars and upper wing-coverts with round spots of 

 white, encircled by a black ring ; quills cinnamon-rufous, inner 

 webs dusky ; rectrices with indistinct dusky bars, especially near 

 the base ; lower surface of the same cinnamon-rufous colour as the 

 back, sometimes a little paler; chin whitish buff; feathers in the 

 middle of the throat and breast and large portions of the abdomen 

 white, with deep brown margins or spots near the shafts ; lower 

 tail-coverts and lower wing-coverts mixed whitish and cinnamon- 

 rufous : upper mandible brown, lower mandible and feet pale 

 yellowish in skins. Total length about 11'.5 inches, wing 6"6, 

 tail 5'9, tarsus 0'8 to 1, width of mouth at gape 1'35. 



The plumage described above is that of adult specimens. Other 

 specimens, which are no doubt immature, are somewhat deeper 

 coloured above ; the crown has large rufous-bufi spots and bars, 

 the whole upper surface is more or less distinctly vermiculated with 

 blackish ; outer webs of quills pale rufous, spotted with dusky ; 

 lower surface cinnamon-buff, with paler and darker markings. 

 They gradually assume the plumage of the adult bird, as shown by 

 a specimen in an intermediate state of plumage. 



Hob. Moluccan Islands : Halmahera and Eatchian. 



a. ? ad. ; b. Imm. sk. Batchian. Wallace Coll. (Types 



of Batrachostomus j)silopterus.) 



c. Ad. sk. Halmahera. Wallace Coll. 



d. Fere ad. sk. Halmahera. Tweeddale Coll. 



2. .SIgotheles insignis. 



^gotheles insignis, Salvad. Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. vi. p. 916 (1875 ; 

 Arfak Mts.) ; id. op. cit. x. p. 309 (1877) ; id. Orn. Papuas. i. 

 p. 523 (1880). 



Adult. Chestnut-rufous ; lores, superciliaries, and throat rufescent 

 whitish ; gape, sides of the forehead, and auriculars beset with 

 long bristles of black colour with rufescent whitish bases ; back 

 with small rufous-white spots, some margined with black ; upper 

 tail-coverts barred with dark brown and rufous ; breast and abdo- 

 men chestnut-rufous, spotted with white, these spots margined with 

 brown, sometimes occupying the whole of the feathers, sometimes the 

 outer or inner web only ; middle of the abdomen rufous without 

 large white spots, varied with small brown and black spots ; under 

 tail-coverts whitish, rufescent towards the tips ; scapulars similar 

 in colour to the back, but the outer ones with two or three spots of 

 white, margined with black ; wings similar to the back, but paler ; 

 upper wing-coverts barred with fuscous, narrowly tij^ped with 

 white ; under wing-coverts dark brown, some of the median ones 



