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The egg was a pale salmon-colour, clouded with a darker shade of 

 the same hue ; it was of the same cloudy type as eggs of C r . asiaticn-, 

 and not boldly streaked like those of 0. unwini, Hume, or C. 



In length these eggs vary from T08 to 1-3 inch, and in breadth 

 from 0'85 to O95 inch ; but the average of a large series is 1*2 by 

 0-89 inch. 



Caprimulgus jotaka, Temm. & 8chleg. The Japanese Nvjhtjar. 

 Caprimuljriis jotaka, T. $ 6'., Hume, Cat. no. 107 bis. 



Colonel Godwin-Austen gives the following account of the 

 nesting-place and eggs of the Japanese Xightjar in the Xaga 

 Hills:"! shot this bird near the Umshirpi falls on the 29th 

 May. It got up off the path and immediately settled again about 

 10 yards off on the open path ; on again putting it up, it did the 

 same. Captain Badgley, who was walking behind me, called out 

 that he had found the eggs. I then put the bird up a third time, 

 and brought her down. The eggs were laid close in under the 

 rock on side of the path, lying 011 the bare ground, with no signs of 

 anything in the way of preparation for them or the young. The 

 two eggs are of a dull white, blotched with three shades of umber 

 and one shade of ashy brown : in the one they arc distributed 

 pretty evenly throughout, and this is symmetrical in form, the 

 minor axis being in the centre of the length ; in the other the 

 markings are mostly confined to the larger end and the shape is 

 rounder. They measure 1-22 by 0-88 and M9 by 0-91." 



Caprimulgus macrurus, Horsf. The Malay Xiyhtjar. 



Capriiuulgus macrourus, Horsf., Jerd. B. 2nd. i, p. 195; Hume, 

 Cat. no. 110. 



Major C. T. Biugham, writing of the nidification of this Xight- 

 jar in Tenasserim, says : 



" This is the commonest Xightjar, and, as Mr. Davison remarks 

 (S. P. vol. vi. p. 58), its incessant call of tok-tok-tok is very 

 annoying at night. 



<; It is common in the Thoungyeen valley even in dense ever- 

 green forest. On the loth March, 1S79, while tramping back to 

 my camp pitched on the bank of the Queebawchoung, a tributary 

 of the Meplay, I arrived about dusk at a dense bamboo-forest just 

 above my tent. There being lots of fallen bamboos, I had to 

 carefully pick my steps in threading my way through, and so 

 doing all but trod on a female of the above species ; she flew up, 

 and I saw lying on the dry bamboo-leaves a couple of blunt oval 

 eggs, pinkish stone-colour, with washed-out purple blotches, clouds, 

 and spots of various shades. 



" Both these I found slightly set, and a third one half formed in 



