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lower surface, this being- particularly noticeable on the thighs, flanks, 

 crissum, and lower al)cloni(Mi. 



Two immature birds — male and female — are paler and more grayish 

 both above and below than the adults; both resemble the adult male 

 in the barring of the posterior lower parts; otherwise the immature 

 female is like the adult of that sex; while the innnature juale ditt'ers 

 from the young female in having whitish instead of ochraceous tips 

 to the innermost secondaries, nearly pui"e white in place of partly 

 tawny spots on the primaries, and paler butf external webs of the out- 

 ermost tail-feathers. 



CAPRIMULGUS DONALDSONI Sharpe. 



Caprimulgus donaUhinii 8hakpe, 1>uI1. I'rit. Orn. Cliili, IV, No. XXV, 1895, 

 p. xxix (Hargei«i, Somali Ijand). 



A single specimen of this pretty as well as unconunon goatsucker 

 was secured by Doctor Abbott. It is a female, not quite adult, from 

 Taveta, August is, ISSS. This is quite an extension of its range, for 

 the southernmost previous record of its occurrence appears to be Lake 

 Baringo, British East Africa." It will be noted, also, that this is 

 another of the many species of which Doctor Ab))ott was the real dis- 

 coverer, but which, through unfortunate delay in pu})lication, have 

 fallen to the credit of others. 



In view of the rarity of the species and the meagerness of most 

 published accounts, the following description of Doctor Abbott's 

 specimen may be of interest: 



Forehead and crown chestnut, the feathers with irregularly shaped 

 black shaft marks; nape like the crown, witli ))ut slight traces of 

 V)lack, these in the form of small, subterminal, triangular or tear- 

 shaped spots, the feathers tipped with yellowish butf; back, rump, 

 and upper tail-coverts paler — l)etween hazel brown and chestnut — 

 most of the feathers with narrow, brownish l>lack shaft lines, broadest 

 on the back; feathers of the rump, and to a less degree those of the 

 upper tail-coverts, with very narrow, subterminal bars of blackish, 

 immediately succeeded ))y broader, butf'y white tips; scapulars chest- 

 nut, most of them with irregular black markings, terminating in 

 bold, sonunvhat triangular, spots, and bordered distally, mostly on the 

 outer webs, with butf'; primaries brownish black, the three outer ones 

 very sparsely mottled at the tip with chestnut; inner ones heavily 

 mottled with pale chestmit; tirst primary with a small, roundish, 

 pure white spot on the inner web, not reaching the shaft; second 

 with a larger, less rounded white spot; third with a white bar on 

 the inner web, touching the shaft, and a more nai'row butf'y white 

 spot on the outer web; fourth with a pale cinnamon rufous bar on 

 both webs; secondaries brownish black, with heavy, broken bars of 



«8hari)e. Ibis, 1902, p. 111. 



