CAPRIMULGIN &., 89: 
at the tip; rictal bristles very strong, numerous, directed for- 
wards ; other characters as in the sub-family. 
- Caprimulgus indicus, Lath. 
107.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 192; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. III, p. 454; Deccan, Stray Feathers, 
Vol. IX, p. 380. 
THE JUNGLE NIGHT-JAR. 
- Length, 12 ; wing, 7°5 to 7-9; tail, 5°5 to 6. 
Prevalent hue light ashy, with dusky pencillings and black 
streaks to the feathers of the middle of the head, back, scapu- 
lars, rump, and upper tail-coverts, and fulvous blotches on the 
wing-coverts ; the quills with dark rufous spots or interrupted 
bars; the tail cinerascent, more or less dark, and the outer 
feathers more or less tinged with rufous, with narrow black 
bars, and numerous dusky mottlings ; the lower parts rufescent- 
ashy with dark bars and mottlings. 
Some specimens are darker in their ground color than others, 
and the rufescent markings are deeper. 
The male has the cheek-stripe, throat band, the spots or 
interrupted bands on the first three primaries, and the tips of all 
the outer feathers, white, the latter ended by a narrow. dusky 
tip; the female has these marks more or less rufescent, or 
fulvescent, and wants the white terminations to the tail-feathers ; 
the primaries are strongly mottled towards their tips; the frst 
. primary almost equals the fourth ; the tail is slightly rounded, 
and the wings reach to about one inch from its end. 
The Jungle Night-jar is not very common ; it affects forest and 
hilly districts in the Deccan, and is fairly common at Mount 
Aboo ; it is believed to be a permanent resident. 
Tt does not occur in Sind. 
Caprimulgus kelaarti, Bly. 
108.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 198; Butler, Deccan; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 380. 
THE NEILGHERRY NIGHT-JAR. 
Length, 11°5; wing, 7:25.; tail, 5°75.; tarsus, 0:6. 
‘Plumage generally light cinereous, much mottled with black 
and dusky, and in parts tinged with light fawn and cream-color ; 
ears black, edged with light rufous; line below the ears extend- 
ing along the gape and throat spot white; small white marks 
on the inner webs only of the first four quills; all the tail- 
feathers, except the four centre ones, tipped with white, with a 
dusky margin ; the primaries are slightly mottled at their tip ; 
the wings do not reach to the end of the tail. 
The Neilgherry Night-jar is very rare, and has only been 
recorded from the Konkan and the forest tract to the west of. 
