PArd-, from British East Africa and Uganda. 305 



CaPRIMULGUS NATALENSIS GABONENSIS. 



Caprimidgus gabonensis Alexander, Bull. B. O, C. vol. xxi. 

 1908, p. 90 : Gaboon. 



In plumage very similar to C. n.fulvivenfris, hut rather 

 more mottled. Size much smaller. The types, a male and 

 a female, judging by the markings of the wings and tail, 

 are the only specimens available, and have the wing : 

 (J 142 mm. ; ? 139 mm. 



Range. Gaboon. 



164. Caprimulgus poliocephalus. Abyssinian Nightjar. 



Caprimulgas poliocephalus Hiipp. Neue Wirb. 1840, p. 106 : 

 KuUa, Ai)yssinia. 



a. ? ad. Hills S. of Narossura Biver, 7200 ft. Nov. 4. 



Total length in flesh : 9 inches. Wing : 157 mm. 



This specimen is in slightly worn dress. It agrees per- 

 fectly in the markings with a female of this species in the 

 British Museum collection from Mt. Kenya, but is alto- 

 gether darker, especially btlow ; that is to say, it lacks most 

 of the deep fulvous coloration. However, with only one 

 specimen, and that a female, I prefer to place this bird 

 under C. poliocephalus. 



[Irides brown ; bill black, base of lower mandible flesh- 

 colour; legs and toes brown.] 



In the female of this species the pattern of the white on 

 the outermost tail-feathers agrees with that of C. ruwenzorii 

 O.-Grant (Bull. B. O. C. vol. xxiii. 1909, p. 94 : Mokia, 

 S.E. Ruwenzori) : but on the penultimate tail-feathers there 

 is much less white, and the central tail-feathers are quite 

 differently barred from those in C. ruwenzoi'ii. 



Sjostedt (Zool. Kilimandjaro-Meru Exped. 1910, p. 101, 

 pi. i.) has described a new Nightjar allied to C. polio- 

 cephalus under the name C. palmquisti, and gives the type 

 locality as Kibonoto, Kilimanjaro; both the description and 

 the plate agree with specimens of C. poliocephalus in the 

 British Museum collection from Abyssinia, except for the 

 lack of any white on the throat. It does not, however, 

 appear to agree with the darkish specimen in this collection. 



