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middle toe with claw, 20. Eight females, length, 240; wing, 124; tail, 

 94; culmen, 35; tarsus, 11; middle toe with claw, 18." {Bourns and 

 Worceste7- MS.) 



Suborder CAPRIMULGI. 



Ten primaries and ten reetrices; wing long and pointed; gape very 

 wide; bill small and weak; legs and feet moderate and rather weak; 

 middle toe-nail pectinate; toes with slight webs at base; plumage soft 

 and mottled; in habits crepuscular and probably nocturnal, feeding 

 largely on moths and large beetles. The two mottled eggs are deposited 

 on the bare ground. 



Family CAPRIMULGID^. 



Characters same as those given for the Suborder. 



Subfamily CAPRI MULGIN.^. 

 Genera. 



a\ Rictus without conspicuous bristles; feathers on sides of occiput elongated, 

 forming ear-tufts; larger, wing more than 250 mm Lyncornis (p. 342) 



O". Rictus armed with strong bristles; no elongated feathers on head; smaller, 

 wing less than 230 mm Caprimulgus (p. 344) 



Genus LYNCORNIS Gould, 1838. 



Similar to Caprimulgus but rictal bristles wanting ; a conspicuous ear- 

 tuft on each side of head; no large white spot on primaries. 



305. LYNCORNIS MACROTIS (Vigors). 

 PHILIPPINE EARED NIGHTJAR. 



Caprimulgus macrotis Vigors, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1831), 97. 



Lyncornis mindanensis Tweeddale, Pi-oc. Zool. Soc. (1878), 945. 



Lyncornis macrotis Hartert, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1892), 16, 605; Grant, 

 Ibis (1894), 519; Whitehead, Ibis (1899), 383; Sharpe, Hand-List 

 (1900), 2, 81; McGregor and Worcester, Hand-List (1906), 57; Mc- 

 Gregor, Phil. Jour. Sci. (1907), 2, sec. A, 284. 



Basilan (Bourns & Worcester, Celestino) ; Luzon (Lindsay, M Ollendorff, Steere 

 Exp., Whitehead, Celestino) ; Mindanao (Everett, Celestino) ; Mindoro (McGregor, 

 Porter). 



Adult {sexes alike). — Head light chocolate-brown, very finely vermic- 

 ulated with gray and buff ; along middle of head and on ear-tufts a num- 

 ber of large black spots; lower feathers of ear-tufts pure black; a rusty 

 collar on neck continued on sides of neck and connected with the white 

 spot on each side of throat; sides of face and ear-coverts black, vermic- 

 ulated with cinnamon; wings, coverts, and back variously mottled and 

 splotched with black, ocherous-buff, and cinnamon; scapulars with large 



