CAPRIMULGUS LENTIGINOSOS. 87 
—“ This species is tolerably common in the north of Damara Land. 
It is usually found singly, and is partial to open roads and paths 
about dusk. Its food consists of beetles and other insects, their 
eggs, and small seeds.”” Mr. Gurney has correctly identified the 
C. damarensis of Strickland (J. c.) with O. rufigena, and the deter- 
mination of the other Damara Goatsuckers has been rendered easy 
to us by the kindness of Mr. Salvin, who allowed us to see all the 
Strickland specimens. 
This bird may be briefly described as being very closely allied to 
O. rufigena, but at once distinguishable by its uniform clear golden- 
buff cheeks; the latter in C. rufigena are black slightly streaked. 
with rufous. Totallength, 9°5 inches; wing, 6°7; tail, 4°8; tarsus, 0°7. 
$2, CAPRIMULGUS LENTIGINOSUS. Freckled Nightjar. 
We never personally fell in with this large Nightjar in the Colony, 
and Mr. Andersson says:—‘I am inclined to think that this is a 
scarce bird in South Africa, though, at the same time, somewhat 
widely diffused, as I have obtained specimens in every part traversed 
by myself.” The only example, however, of Mr. Andersson’s which 
we have seen, is one from the river Cunene, formerly in the editor’s 
collection and now in the British Museum. Sir Andrew Smith ori- 
ginally procured the species in Great Namaqua Land, where he got 
two specimens; “ the one, when it was shot, was seated on a high 
road, and the other was skimming around a pool of stagnant water, 
and occasionally darting from its general course as if to capture 
insects. Many other individuals, probably of the same species, 
were observed in the same country; but as they all kept so ex- 
tremely close to the edge of the brushwood, and never appeared till 
the dusk was about giving way to darkness, two specimens only 
- were obtained.” : 
This is a large-sized species, as well as a very variable one. Total 
length, 10°6 inches; wing, 7:2; tail, 5-4; tarsus, 0°8. Its large 
size prevents its being mistaken for any other South African Night- 
* ‘jar excepting O. ewropeus, but it may at once be distinguished from 
the latter bird by the small size of the white spots on the primaries, 
four of which have the white markings: on the tail-feathers there 
are no distinct white tips to the outer ones, only an indication of 
white being present. 
' Fig. Smith, Ill. Zool. 8. Afr. pl. 101. 
