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Contrary to what might have been expected, I found that 

 although the sexes are nearly alike in colour, the females 

 always exceed the males in size and in the brilliance of the 

 tints ; the males, on the other hand, have the two white 

 spots on the third and fourth primaries more conspicuous 

 than in the female. 



This species has very large and lustrous black eyes, which 

 clearly indicate that it is a night-flier; its wings are very 

 long ; its tarsi short, and partially feathered ; and the stiff 

 rictal bristles of the typical Caprimulgi are absent. 



All the upper surface very minutely freckled grey and 

 brown ; the feathers on the crown of the head and at the 

 occiput with a large patch of black down the centre ; behind 

 the ear- coverts a patch of dark brown sprinkled with brownisli 

 buff; from the angle of the mouth passing round the back of 

 the neck an indistinct collar of intermingled buff, chestnut, 

 and black ; scapularies variegated with dark brown on their 

 outer webs and margined with bright fulvous ; wing dark 

 brown, variegated with fulvous and grey ; secondaries dark 

 brown, with a regular series of bright fulvous spots along 

 each web ; primaries blackish brown, the two first without 

 any spot, the remainder spotted like the secondaries, the 

 third having a spot of white on its inner and outer web about 

 the centre of the feather, the fourth with a large w^hite spot 

 on its outer web ; two centre and outer webs of the remaining 

 tail-feathers dark brown, marbled with irregular bars of grey ; 

 the inner webs of the lateral feathers dark brown, crossed 

 with irregular bands of light buff; throat blackish brown, 

 spotted with bright buff; on each side of the throat a large 

 oval spot of white ; breast dark brown, spotted above with 

 dull buff, and broadly freckled with dull buff and grey ; 

 abdomen and under tail-coverts bright fulvous, crossed with 

 bars of dark brown ; irides dark brown ; feet mealy reddish 

 brown. 



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