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310. CAPRI IVfULGUS JOTAKA Temminck and Schlegel. 



JAPANESE NIGHTJAR. 



CapriDiiilgus jotaka Temminck and Schlegel, Fauna Japonica, Aves ( 1S47 ), 

 37. pi. 12; Hartert. Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1892), 16, 552; Sharpe. 

 Hand-List ( 1900), 2, 88^ :\IcGregor and Worcester, Hand-List ( 1900). 

 57; Gates and Reid, Cat. Birds' Eggs (1903), 3, 74. pi. 1, fig. 14. 



Calaj'an {McGregor); Palawan {Bourns d Worcester, Celestino, White). 

 Northeastern Siberia, China, Japan, Indo-Cliinese provinces; in winter to New 

 Guinea, Malay Peninsula, Greater Sunda Islands. 



"Adult male. — Above gray, finely penciled with brown, with broad 

 black stripes along the top of the head, back, and rump; scapulars with 

 velvety black centers or spots and buff or nifous-buflp spots or bar-like 

 markings ; wing-coverts with roundish buff spots speckled with brown ; 

 some longitudinal buff spots on the hind neck; a golden buff spot on 

 each side of neck, just behind ear-coverts ; primaries deep blackish brown, 

 outer webs with some minute rufous spots, inner web of first primary 

 with a round white spot, not reaching shaft, a white band across both 

 webs of next three; central pair of rectrices deep l)lackish brown, with 

 broad pale grayish brown, dark speckled bars, the others wath narrower 

 bands, becoming more rufous on the outer ones, and all, except central 

 pair, with a broad subterminal white bar ; a white band across throat, 

 interrupted at center and variegated on lower edge with ferruginous buff 

 and blackish spots; throat pale rufous-buff with l)rown cross-markings; 

 chest and upper breast pale grayish browai, with dark markings and some 

 more or less developed larger buff spots; abdomen Imif, l)arred with 

 dark brown, the bars becoming broader and less numerous on lower tail- 

 coverts which are sometimes nearly uniform ; rictal l)ristles dark toward 

 the base. Length, :279; wing, -^03 to 221: tail, 140 to 147; tarsus, 1(5: 

 feathered in front. 



"Adult female. — tSimilar to tlie male, l)ut a little smaller on the 

 average; spots on primaries l)utf and s})eckled, band on second jjrimary 

 always interruj^ted : spots on tliroat buff; tail-feathers without a distinct 

 white band. 



"Voung. — Young individuals are paler above and below, the dark 

 markings less developed, and jjt'rvadcd with a sandy rufous tinge; the 

 young male shows already the white spots of the adult nuile, Imt they 

 are shaded with butf and that on the second (piill is a little interrupted." 

 {Ilortert.) 



Worcester and Bourns took a male of this species in Palawan in I>e- 

 cember, 1891. It was '^HO in length; wing, 2\2: tail. ^•^S: culmen, 1".^; 

 tarsus, 14; middle toe with claw, 22. 'I'he second I'hilippine specimen 

 was shot by my assistant in Calayan Island, the last day of 190;?. This 

 specimen measures: Length, 2(H); wing, 210; tail, 127 ; tarsus, lo; middle 



