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middle toe with claw, 20. Eight females, length, 240; wing, 124; tail, 
94; culmen, 35; tarsus, 11; middle toe with claw, 18.” (Bourns and: 
Worcester MS.) 
Suborder CAPRIMULGI. 
Ten primaries and ten rectrices; wing long and pointed; gape very 
wide; bill small and weak; legs and feet moderate and rather weak; 
middle toe-nail pectinate; toes with shght webs at base; plumage soft 
and mottled; in habits crepuscular and probably nocturnal, feeding 
largely on moths and large beetles. The two mottled eggs are deposited 
on the bare ground. 
Family CAPRIMULGIDA. 
Characters same as those given for the Suborder. 
Subfamily CAPRIMULGIN 42. 
Genera. 
a. Rictus without conspicuous bristles; feathers on sides of occiput elongated, 
forming ear-tufts; larger, wing more than 250 mm............ Lyncornis (p. 342) 
a7, Rictus armed with strong bristles; no elongated feathers on head; smaller, 
wang Less iit liam 23 Oeil ee eee cere cece ace ea nea ee neeeeme noe Caprimulgus (p. 344) 
Genus LYNCORNIS Gould, 1838. 
Similar to Caprimulgus but rictal bristles wanting ; a conspicuous ear- 
tuft on each side of head; no large white spot on primaries. 
305. LYNCORNIS MACROTIS (Vigors). 
PHILIPPINE EARED NIGHTJAR. 
Caprimulgus macrotis Vicors, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1831), 97. 
Lyncornis mindanensis TWEEDDALE, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1878), 945. 
Lyncornis macrotis HARTERT, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1892), 16, 605; Grant, 
Ibis (1894), 519; WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 383; SHARPE, Hand-List 
(1900), 2, 81; McGrecor and WorcrEstTER, Hand-List (1906), 57; Me- 
GrReEGoR, Phil. Jour. Sci. (1907), 2, sec. A, 284. 
Basilan (Bourns & Worcester, Celestino) ; Luzon (Lindsay, Mollendorff, Steere 
Exp., Whitehead, Celestino) ; Mindanao (Everett, Celestino) ; Mindoro (McGregor, 
Porter). 
Adult (sexes alike).—Head light chocolate-brown, very finely vermic- 
ulated with gray and buff; along middle of head and on ear-tufts a num- 
ber of large black spots; lower feathers of ear-tufts pure black; a rusty 
collar on neck continued on sides of neck and connected with the white 
spot on each side of throat; sides of face and ear-coverts black, vermic- 
ulated with cinnamon; wings, coverts, and back variously mottled and 
splotched with black, ocherous-buff, and cinnamon; scapulars with large 
