]04 BIIIDS OF INDIA. 



marks on the inner webs only of the first four quills ; all the tail- 

 feathers except the centre ones, tipped with white, with a dusky- 

 margin ; the primaries are slightly mottled at their tip ; the wings 

 do not reach to the end of the tail. 



Length, 11^ inches ; wing, 7^; tail, 5|, exceeding the wing by 

 about ^ inch ; tarsus, y"^ ; weight 2^ oz. Some specimens have the 

 wing barely 7. 



In my Catalogue, when noticing C. Indicus, I pointed out 

 distinctions from that species as described and figured by Gray and 

 Hardwicke, but did not venture to name it. Its chief differences 

 from that bird are its more cinereous or albescent hue, compared 

 with the rufous tint of Indicus, and the more mottled black mark- 

 ings, giving it altogether a darker shade. It is, too, a considerably 

 smaller bird. 



This Night-jar is found on the summit of the Neilgherries, 

 and probably in other elevated regions of the South of India, and 

 also on the mountains of Ceylon. On the Neijgherries it remains 

 during the day in the dense woods, issuing from them about sunset, 

 coming into the open ground, and perching on stones and trees, 

 and from thence pursuing its insect-prey. It is now and then 

 flushed from the woods when beating for game, and more than 

 one have fallen before the gun of the inexperienced sportsman, 

 its extent of wing and the lazy flapping having caused it to 

 be mistaken for the Woodcock. Its flight is noiseless, at 

 times very rapid, and performed with but few vibrations of its 

 wines ; when roused in the day-time it flies, like the others of the 

 genus, but a short distance, and then suddenly alights and squats 

 close to the ground, never, that I have seen, perching in the day- 

 time. Its note, as might have been expected, is very like that of 

 C. indicus. A nearly allied species from China is C. dytiscivorus, 

 Swinhoe, to which C. jotaka, Tem., from Japan, is closely related. 



2nd Group. — Two outer tail-feathers only, broadly tipped with 

 white in the male ; tarsus feathered. 



109. Caprimulgus albonotatus, Tickell, 



J. A. S. XI, 580— -Bltth, Cat. 411— C. gangeticus, Blyth— ■ 

 C. macrourus, apud Blyth, J. A. S. XI, 586 — Hoksf., Cat. 138. 



