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OcToBER 31, 1918 Vou. VI, pp. 91-92 
PROCEEDINGS 
OF THE 
NEW ENGLAND ZOOLOGICAL CLUB 
A NEW GENUS OF CAPRIMULGIDAE. 
BY OUTRAM BANGS. 
Tue Museum of Comparative Zodlogy has lately received a 
specimen of the rare nightjar, Caprimulgus binotatus Bp., from 
the Rev. George Schwab, who from time to time, for some 
years, has sent us collections from the Cameroons. 
At the time Hartert wrote his monograph of the Caprimul- 
gidze (Das Tierreich, 1897) the species was known only by the 
type in the Leyden Museum, which came from the Gold Coast. 
Since then Mr. G. L. Bates has secured at least two specimens 
(now in the British Museum) from the Cameroons. Bates 
(Ibis, #911, p. 516) thought his last example was rather small, 
as compared with the measurements given by Hartert for the 
type. Our skin (M.C. Z., no. 81,130, adult ¢, Metek, Came- 
roons, February 5, 1917, George Schwab) affords the following 
measurements: wing, 151; tail-feathers, 103; tarsus, 11; ex- 
posed culmen, 7mm. These are almost identical with those of 
the type. 
Ornithologists have always referred to this nightjar as a very 
peculiar species, with no near ally, and well they might. Com- 
