CAPRIMULGIN.A. 91 
a yellowish tinge ; head and neck with longitudinal blackish 
streaks; a white stripe beneath the base of the lower mandilble 
extends along each side of the lower part of the head, and there 
is a central patch upon the throat; primaries, secondaries, and 
tertiaries dark-brown; the outer webs blotched with reddish- 
brown and the three exterior feathers with a large white patch near 
the tips of the inner webs ; tail irregularly marked amd indistinctly 
barred with blackish-grey and yellowish-brown ; the two external 
feathers on each side white at their termination; plumage of 
under parts yellowish-brown ; tarsi paler; female like the male, 
the white spots on the quills and tail feathers absent. 
The following is a description of C. wnwini :— 
This species has the upper three-fourths of the tarsus feathered 
in front. 
In both sexes the two outer feathers on each side are tipped 
with white, but the tippings are about 1:55 and 1:0 broad in the 
male on the outer and penultimate feathers respectively, and only 
about 0°75 and 0°44 in the female, and in the latter sex the white 
is less pure ; both sexes have a white spot on the inner webs of the 
first three, and a corresponding one on the outer webs of the 
second and third primaries; but here again, while the spots on 
the inner webs of the male are about one inch broad, those of the 
female are about half the size. 
Within our limits, this Night-jar has only been obtained in 
Sind, where it is very common, 
Caprimulgus asiaticus, Zath. 
112.—Jerdon’s Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 197; Butler, Guzerat ; 
Stray Feathers, Vol. HI, p. 455; Deccan, Stray Feathers, 
Vol. IX, p. 380; Murray’s Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, 
p. 106; Swinhoe and Bares, Central India; Ibis, 1885, 
p. 60, 
THE Common Inp1AN NIGHT-JAR. 
Length, 9; expanse, 18 ; wing, 5°5 to 6; tail, 4:5. 
Pale rufescent-ashy, the feathers finely mottled with dusky; 
the top of the head (as usual), marked narrowly with black aar:} 
distinct rufescent collar with black marks; the black markings 
on the scapulars not extended, but they are much edged 
with buff, as are all the wing-coverts; back not streaked with 
black; quills with a white spot on each of the first four feathers 
and mottled at the tip; the outermost feathers are tipped with 
white, and there is a white spot on the neck; the lower parts are 
lightly mottled and barred. 
The Indian Night-jar is common throughout the district 
and is a permanent resident, breeding during April and May. 
The eggs (there is no nest) are two in number, and are laid on 
the bare ground; they vary from a warm pinkish stone-color to 
a deep salmon-pink, and are clouded, blotched, and streaked with 
