24.2 SPOLIA ZEYLANIGA. 
are no large trees. The note is a fairly loud “‘ churr,’”’ preceded 
by a low “ grog-grog-grog ” heard only when one is close to the 
bird. The breeding season is from March to about May. 
Two eggs, as usual, are laid on the bare ground, but Ceylon 
eggs are not of the normal marbled type. Eight eggs in my 
collection taken from five nests are pale buff sparingly spotted 
with dark brown. Legge and A. L. Butler both give the same 
description. Northern Indian birds appear to lay eggs of the 
usual marbled type, so probably the southern race is a good 
sub-species or even species. Average size of Ceylon eggs 
1-14 by -88. 
CAPRIMULGUS INDICUS (Blanford, Vol. III., p. 190). . 
CAPRIMULGUS KELAARTI (Legge, p. 337). 
The Jungle Nightjar. 
Description.—Male : General colour above ash-gray mottled 
with white, and finely pencilled with dark brown ; the centre 
of the crown and nape, the back, scapulars, rump, and upper 
tail coverts are heavily marked with black ; the scapulars have 
pale buff margins ; wing coverts dusky brown with ocellate 
whitish spots, which are faintly mottled with brown. Wing 
quills dusky brown ; first primary notched on the outer web 
with buff and with a white spot on the inner web ; the next 
three primaries have a white bar right across the quill. The 
tail is much mottled, and is irregularly barred with black. 
All feathers, except the central pair, have large white spots 
towards the end, the extreme tips being mottled brown. 
There is an imperfect white moustache stripe ; centre of the 
throat chestnut buff with black cross markings, on each side 
of the throat the feathers have white bases, which form a white 
patch ; the buff markings are continued round the sides of the 
neck forming an imperfect collar ; fore-neck and breast dusky 
brown, mottled with ash colour; abdomen and lower tail 
coverts whitish-buff with brown bars. 
Females are darker; the spots on the wing quills are 
smaller, and buff instead of white ; the tail feathers have no 
white tips, and the throat patches are buff. 
Bill vinous-brown, paler at the gape and black at the tip : 
iris deep brown ; legs and feet vinous-brown. 
