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8. Tachypedes minor (Gra.) ; Salvad. t. c. p. 364 



Nos. 2\, 22, S 'i • 111 lagoori;, Cocos Keeling Islands, 



January 29^ 1879. " Burung itam " or '' Bangoo cicir." 



Irides brown. 



Neither of the above is quite adult." 



V. — A Second List of Birds from Mombasa, East Africa. 

 By J. H. GuRNEY. 



My late valued friend and relative the Rev. F. A. Buxton 

 was so good, as to allow me to examine a second collection of 

 birds sent to him from Mombasa by Mr. J. W. Ilandford, 

 amongst which I find the following species that were not in 

 the former collection, recorded in 'The Ibis/ 1881, p. 124. 

 I have numbered the birds in the present list consecutively 

 with those in the previous one, and have marked with an 

 asterisk the species which I do not find to have been previ- 

 ously recorded from Mombasa or its immediate vicinity. 



^41. Capkimulgus mosambicus, Peters. Mosambique 

 Nightjar. 



The specimen sent, which is probably a female, differs from 

 the description given in Sharpe's ' Layard,^ p. 88, in having 

 no white on the tail, the outer webs and the tips of the ex- 

 ternal pair of rectrices being fawn-coloured, and the upper 

 part of the web for about one fourth of its total length being 

 variegated with dark blackish-brown markings resembling 

 those which extend over the whole length of the corresponding 

 web in the female of the nearly allied South- African C. ru- 

 figena ; a narrow line of the same dark colour (also on the 

 outer web) adjoins the shaft of the feathers throughout, 

 except at the tip, on which latter part, however, the fawn 

 tint is suffused with a decided tinge of darker brown ; the 

 secondaries are also tipped with pale fawn, instead of with 

 white, as described by Mr. Sharpe. 



The present specimen greatly resembles in its general 

 aspect the female of C. rufigena ; but, besides the differences 



