CAPRIMULGUS. 349 
310. CAPRIMULGUS JOTAKA Temminck and Schlegel. 
JAPANESE NIGHTJAR. 
Caprimulgus jotaka TEMMINCK and SCHLEGEL, Fauna Japonica, Aves (1847), 
37, pl. 12; Harter, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1892), 16, 552; SHARPE, 
Hand-List (1900), 2, 88; McGrecor and WorcESTER, Hand-List (1906), 
57; OaTEs and RED, Cat. Birds’ Eggs (1903), 3, 74, pl. 1, fig. 14. 
Calayan (McGregor); Palawan (Bourns & Worcester, Celestino, White). 
Northeastern Siberia, China, Japan, Indo-Chinese provinces; in winter to New 
Guinea, Malay Peninsula, Greater Sunda Islands. 
“Adult male——Above gray, finely penciled with brown, with broad 
black stripes along the top of the head, back, and rump; scapulars with 
velvety black centers or spots and buff or rufous-buff spots or bar-like 
markings; wing-coverts with roundish buff spots speckled with brown; 
some longitudinal buff spots on the hind neck; a golden buff spot on 
each side of neck, just behind ear-coverts ; primaries deep blackish brown, 
outer webs with some minute rufous spots, inner web of first primary 
with a round white spot, not reaching shaft, a white band across both 
webs of next three; central pair of rectrices deep blackish brown, with 
broad pale grayish brown, dark speckled bars, the others with narrower 
bands, becoming more rufous on the outer ones, and all, except central 
pair, with a broad subterminal white bar; a white band across throat, 
interrupted at center and variegated on lower edge with ferruginous buff 
and blackish spots; throat pale rufous-buff with brown cross-markings ; 
chest and upper breast pale grayish brown, with dark markings and some 
more or less developed larger buff spots; abdomen buff, barred with 
dark brown, the bars becoming broader and less numerous on lower tail- 
coverts which are sometimes nearly uniform; rictal bristles dark toward 
the base. Length, 279; wing, 203 to 221; tail, 140 to 147; tarsus, 16; 
feathered in front. 
“Adult female-——Similar to the male, but a little smaller on the 
average; spots on primaries buff and speckled, band on second primary 
always interrupted ; spots on throat buff; tail-feathers without a distinct 
white band. 
“Young.—Young individuals are paler above and below, the dark 
markings less developed, and pervaded with a sandy rufous tinge; the 
young male shows already the white spots of the adult male, but they 
are shaded with buff and that on the second quill is a little interrupted.” 
(Hartert.) 
Worcester and Bourns took a male of this species in Palawan in De- 
cember, 1891. It was 260 in length; wing, 212; tail, 128; culmen, 12; 
tarsus, 14; middle toe with claw, 22. The second Philippine specimen 
was shot by my assistant in Calayan Island, the last day of 1903. This 
specimen measures: Length, 260; wing, 210; tail, 127; tarsus, 15; middle 
