CAPRIMULGUS, 



1. Eaiptir, C. Trovs., 2otli July (F. R. Hume Coll. 



BlciriH). 



1. Saug-or, C. Prov8., 22ncl July Hume Coll. 



{F. H. B.) 



1. Dhnlia, Khandesh {J. Davidson). Hume Coll. 



1. Dhulia, 18f,h .Tune (J. D.). Hume Coll. 



1. Uhulia, 17th July [J. D.). Hume Coll. 



1. Dhulia, 29tb July (./. Z>.). Hume Coll. 

 3. Dhulia, 5th Aug. (J. D). Hume Coll. 

 3. Arvee, Khandesh, 4th-6th Sept. Hume Coll. 



(/. n.). 



2. Mauiibhoom, Bengal (JS. Ci?i?ftwm). Hume Coll. 



Caprimulgus affinis, Horsf. 



Caprimnlgus affinis, Hartert, Cat. Birch B. M. xvi. p. 549(1892) : Nthrk. 

 Kut.Eiersamml. p. 155 (1899) ; Shari)e, Hand-l. ii. p. 8G (1900). 



An egg of the Allied ]N'ighfjar in the Collection is of a pale 

 creamy-buff colour, blotched and mottled with faint brown and 

 lavender. It measures 1*17 by "89. 



1. Borneo {Tristram Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



Caprimulgiis griseatus, G. B. Gray. 



Caprimnlgus griseatus, Kutter, J.f. O. 1882, p. 175; Hartert, Cat. Birds 

 B. M. xvi. p. 550 (1892) ; Grant ^ Whitehead, Ibis, 1898, p. 245, 

 pi. vi. fig. 7; Sharpe, Hand-l. ii. p. 86 (1900). 



The eggs of the Philippine Nightjar taken by Mr. Whitehead 

 are creamy white, marked with small blotches and smears of pale 

 brown and grey. They are almost devoid of all gloss, and measure 

 respectively : 1-2 by -85 ; 1-26 by -83. 



2. Cape Engano, N.E. Luzon, 26th J. Whitehead, Esq. [C.]. 



May. 



Caprimulgus monticola, FranU. 



Caprim .Igus \\umX\co\ws, Beavan, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 375; Barnes, Journ. 



Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. iv. p. 8, pi. — . fio-. 114 (18S9) ; Gates ed. Hume, 



Nests ^ Fggs hid. Birds, iii. p. 51 (1890). 

 Caprimulo-us monticola, Hartert, Cat. Birds B. M. xvi. p. 547 (1892) 



Blanf. Fauna Brit. Ind., Birds, iii. p. 185 (1895) ; Rattray, Journ. 



Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. xii. p. 343 (1899) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. ii. p. 86 



(1900). 



The eggs of Franklin's Nightjar are of much the same type as 

 those of C. asiaticus. An egg taken by Mr. Davison and another 

 by Mr. Blewitt are salmon-pink, blotched and smeared with reddish 

 brown and underlying lavender-grey. Two other specimens are of 

 a pinkish cream-colour, with large underlying smudges of lavender- 

 grey and some small spots and blotches of pale reddish brown. The 



