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Order PI CARLE. 



Fam. CAPEIMULGID^. 



80. Caprimulgus asiaticus. 



Caprimulffits asiaticus (Lath.) ; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.-l. Co. i. p. 115 (185-1). 



1. c? . Tirphul, Hari-nul. 11th April, 1885. 



2. 5. Khusau, „ IGth April, 1885. 



81. Capkimulgus unwini, 



Caprimulgus unwini, Hume, Str. F. 1875, p. 407; Barnes, ibid. 1880, p. 215; Swinhoe, Ibis, 1880, 

 p. 101. 



Capiimulffus europcpus, Scully, t. c. p. 79. 



1. c?. Khusan, Ilari-rud. 12th May, 1885. 



Mr. Blanford is quite wrong in placing C. unw'mi as a synonym of C. mahrattensis. 

 It belongs to another group of the genus CaprimuUjus, being merely a pale form of 

 C. ei(rop(Bus. 



Fam. PICID.E. 



82. Gecixus gorii, sp. nov. (Plate VI. tig. 1.) 



Gecimis squamatus (nee Vig.), Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.-I. Co. ii. p. 659 (185G-58, pt.) ; 

 C. Swinhoe, Ibis, 1882, p. 102. 



Gecinus f/orii, Hargitt, Ibis, 1887, p. 74. 



1. d. Between Padda-sultan aud De-kamran. 2Gth October, 1884. 



This is a pale race of the Himalayan G. sqmimatus, and has been separated by Mr. 

 Hargitt as a distinct form, to which he has given, at Dr. Aitchison's request, the iianre 

 of Captain Gore, R.E., who shot the specimen above recorded. It differs from 

 G. sqnaviatus in its generally jiale coloration, and in tlie barring of the wing-coverts, 

 seapularies, and tail-feathers. 



Mr. Hargitt has given the following description of the species : — 



" G. similis G. squamato, sed supra dilutius viridis ; tectricibus alarum et scapularibus 

 saturatiore viridi ti"ansfasciatis ; plumis corporis inferioris squaniosi linea nigra intra- 

 marginali tenui ornatis : caudal fasciis transversis albis latis, fasciis nigris angustioribus 

 (his in G. squamato latissimis, illis vero angustioribus). 



" This is a desert form of G. squamatus, distinguished by the following characters : — 

 Above very pale green, the wing-coverts and seapularies barred wdth a darker green ; 

 the squamate markings on the underparts reduced to a thread-like intermarginal line ; 

 the light bars on the quills as broad as, or even broader than, the black intersj^aces ; the 

 tail creamy white, narrowly barred with brownish black, these bars showing but faintly 

 on the under surface, which is strongly washed with golden yellow." 



