100 ]\Ir. D. A. Baiinermau on rare Birds [lljis, 



marked witli })iukisli. In the series in the Britisli Museum 

 of forty specimens several are in tlie entire reddish phase 

 out of whicli si)ecimen No. 5168 is passinj>-. 



The range of ('. inornatus seems to be very peculiar if all 

 the skins in the National Collection have been correctly 

 identified. The following localities are represented there : — 

 Southern Arabia, Bahr el Ghazal, Somaliland, Abyssinia, 

 British East Africa, Uganda, northern Belgian Congo. 



Alexander obtained the bird at Angu on the Uelle River 

 and also on the Ubangi River in the ( *ongo region. It is 

 Avorthy of note that all the specimens obtained in the Belgian 

 Congo and Cameroon were shot during the winter months, 

 November to February. 



The occurrence of this Nightjar in Cameroon is of sjjecial 

 interest. 



Caprimulgus binotatus. 



(uprhitulyus binotatus Bonaparte, Conspect. Gen. Av. 

 1850, p. 60 — Type locality : Dal)ocrom, Gold Coast ; Sharpe, 

 Ibis, 1904, p. 612; Hates, Ibis, 1911, p. 516. 



jNIr. Bates has now sent two more examples of this 

 extremely rare and interesting Nightjar, and with great 

 generosity has presented them with other rare things to the 

 Britisli Museum. 



He had already ])rocured a single male bird at Efulen 

 in March 1902, and this bird, which is in the National 

 Collection, was duly recorded and commented upon by the 

 late Dr. Sharpe (/. c). The next specimen (No. 4107) Avas 

 obtained at Bitye, River Ja, on the 19th of February, 1910, 

 and is likewise a male — the occurrence of this particular bird 

 has already been noted by Mr. Bates (Ibis, 1911, p. 516). 

 In this i)apcr Mr. Bates remarked that in specimen 4107 

 there was a distinct diagonal buff band on the feathers of 

 the scapulars, and expressed his opinion that these characters 

 were distingnlshing marks of the male sex, "supposing the 

 original description to have been made from a female.''^ 

 In this surmise Mr. Bates is perfectly correct, as he has now 

 himself proved by securing yet a third example — a female 



