212 ON THE BIEDS OF CELEBES. [1872. 



II. List of Species to be added to the Celehean Avifauna. 



Genus Caprimulgus, Linn. 



1. C.'O'RiMrLGus AFFiNis, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii. p. 142, " Java" (1820). 

 Cajirimulffvs eiiropceiis, L. ap. Raffles, op. cit. p. 315, in part, "Sumatra." 



Ilah. Java {type) ; Sumatra {Raffles) ; East Timor, Lombock {Wallace); Celebes {Meyer). 



Dr. ^Mcyer has sent from Celebes a single example of a Capr/Dinlt/ifs which appears to 

 belong to the species cited above. I have been unable to compare it with a Javan individual ; 

 but it perfectly agrees with Lombock and East-Timor specimens. Four pairs of rcctrices are 

 missing ; and it is otherwise in indifferent order ; I therefore add a short description of the species, 

 taken from a Lombock individual — Horsfield's account, the only one published, being very 

 meagre. 



Above, the general aspect of the i)lumagc is iron-grey, somewhat mixed with brown, caused 

 by the feathers being finely dotted or sprinkled with black and grey, here and there with 

 fulvous. In some of the crown-feathers black prevails ; but there are no regular stripes on the 

 head. On the sides of the throat are two white spots. The lower breast-feathers are fulvous, 

 Tr. Z. S.viii. with several well-defined brown transverse bars. The ventral region and the under tail-coverts 

 ^*' ''' are fulvous, without any markings. The major wing-coverts are distinctly banded with alternate 

 rufous and brown. A large white spot on each of the first four primaries. The chin, throat, 

 and upper breast are clothed with feathers finely marked with fulvous-grey points on a brown 

 ground. Many of the upper breast-feathers with bold rufo-fulvous tips. The middle rectrices 

 have the general colouring and marking of the upper plumage, and arc traversed by eight or 

 nine more or less distinct irregular black bands. The two outer pairs are pure white throughout 

 their entire length. The wing in six examples averages 6'25 inches, and the tail 4:'25. 



This species, as has been well observed by Mr. Blyth (Cat. Calc. Mus. p. 84, note), is as 

 diminutive as C. monticola, Frankl. 



2. Caprimulgus, sp.'? 



A large dark-coloured Capr/myh/us is among the novelties obtained in Celebes by 

 Dr. Meyer. The example is unfortunately in such indifferent order that the inherent difficulties 

 which attend the discrimination of many species of the family are very much increased. Above, 

 this Celebean Goat-Sucker closely resembles Javan examples of C. macrmriis, Horsf. Under- 

 neath, it is darker in colour, and the transverse barring of the abdominal plumage is less regular 

 and well defined. The principal points in which it differs from a considerable series of 

 C. mncrourvs are : — the great length of the rictal bristles, which measure a full incli ; the 

 greater length of the bill ; the smallness of the terminal white spots on the two outer pairs of 

 rectrices ; and the peculiar markings on the under surface of all the rectrices except the middle 

 pair. In true C. macrotirus the white terminal spot on the outer pair of rectrices measures about 

 two inches; in this individual it measures only seven eigliths of an inch. In the Javan bird the 

 under surface of the rectrices is more or less unifornr brown, without markings ; tliis Celebean 

 bird has some eleven or twelve distinct narrow rufous bars crossing tlic rectrices. Its first 



