GG CAniiMrr.riin.K, 



pale olive-lirown and lavender-grey. On some specimens the 

 markings of the former colour are so pale as to he hardly noticeable. 

 Specimens measure from 1*08 to 1-21 in length, and from '75 to 

 •85 in breadth. 



2. Eastern Narra, Sind (S. Boiq). Hume Coll. 



2. Eastern Narra, 18th Feb. {S. D.). Hume Ccdl. 



2. East Tn Narra, 20th Feb. (.S'. D.). Hume Coll. 



2. Eastern Narra, 20th Feb. (.S'. D.). Hume Coll. 



1. Eastern Narra, 21st Feb. (.S'. D.). Hume Coll. 



2. Eastern Narra, 22nd Feb. {S. D.). Hume Coll. 

 2. Eastern Narra, 23rd Feb. (S. I).). Hume Coll. 

 1. Eastern Narra, 3rd Apiil (<S'. D.). Hume Coll. 

 1. Eastern Narra, 2nd May [S. D.). Hume Coll. 

 1. Eastern Narra, 22nd Jiilv (-S*. D.). Hume Coll. 



1. Eastern Narra, 2oth July (S. I).). Hume Coll. 



2. Eastern Narra, May {E. A. Butler). Crowley Bequest. 

 2. Eastern Narra, 10th Feb. ('S'. Doiq : Crowley Bequest. 



Field Coll.). 



Caprimulgus aegyptius, LnJit. 



Caprimulgus isabelliiius, Koeniq- IVarth. J. f. 0. 1868, p. 366 ; Heiiyl. Voff. 



N.O.-Afr. tab. xliii. tig. 8* (1873). 

 Caprimulgus a?gyptius, Dressei-, B. Eur. iv. p. 629 (1881) ; Seebohm, Brit. 



Birds, ii. p. 315 (1884); Ilartert, Cat. Birds B. M. xvi. p. 562 



(1892) ; Sharpe, Hond-l. ii. p. 86 (190O). 



The eggs of the Egy])tian Nightjar in the Collection are not 

 separable from many of the eggs of C. europ(Fus, described below. 

 They are ashy white, marked with yellowish brown and lavender- 

 grey, and measure respectively: 1*19 by '8; 1'17 by '81. 



2. Damietta, Egypt, 17th May {Field Crowley Beijuest. 

 Coll.). 



Caprimulgus asiaticus, Lath. 



Caprimulgus asiaticus, Benvnv, P. Z. <S'. 1864, p. 375 ; Leggc, Birds Ceylon, 

 p. 343 (1878) ; Barnes, Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. iv. p. 7, pi. — . 

 tig. 112 (1889) ; Oates ed. Hinne, Nests Sf Eqqs hid. Birds, iii. p. 48 

 ( 189U) ; Ilartert, Cut. Birds B. M. xvi. p. 558 ( 1892) ; Blanf. Fauna 

 Brit. Ind., Birds, iii. p. 186 (1895) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. ii. p. 86 (1900). 



The eggs of the Common Indian Nightjar exhibit a considerable 

 amount of gloss, and are of a pale salmon-pink colour, blotched, 

 smeared, and occasionally spotted with brown and purplish grey. 

 The brown markings on many specimens are tinged with red, on 

 others with purple. Examples measure from -97 to 1-15 in length, 

 and from -71 to '83 in breadth. 



2. India. Crowley Bequest. 



3. India. Hume Coll. 



2. Sambhur, Rajputaua, 27th April Hume Coll. 



(Ji. M. Adam). 



3. Ilo^-hunjiabad, (". Provs., 2:;nd -luly. Hume Col]. 



