CAPEIMULGTJS. 47 



The ground-colour is a delicate pale salmon-pink, and they are 

 mottled aud streaked, and ornamented with zigzag and hiero- 

 glyphic -like lines of a darker and somewhat purplish pink. They 

 measure 1'07 and 1*13 in length, and 0*85 in width. 



Caprimulgus atripennis, Jerd. The Ghat 



Caprimulgus atripeiinis, Jerd. ; Jerd. B. Ind. i, p. 190. 

 I'aprimulgus spilocircus, Gray, Hume, Rough Draft N. $ E. 

 110. 111. 



Two eggs sent me with an undoubted skin of the Ghat Xightjar, 

 from the Xilghiris, by Miss Cockburn are more elongated ovals 

 than those of any of the other species. They have the usual 

 gloss, have a pale somewhat creamy-pink ground, and are very 

 faintly streaked and mottled over almost their entire surface with 

 the palest possible reddish -brown and purple. They are decidedly 

 smaller than those of the preceding species, and I thiuk quite as 

 small, and on the whole more elongated than those of C. asiaticus. 



They were taken on the 10th May near Kotagherry, and measure 

 1*13 by 0*72 inch, and 1-01 by 0'74 inch respectively. 



" In the west of Ceylon," says Colonel Legge, " the Jungle 

 Nightjar breeds during the latter part of the dry season and the 

 commencement of the monsoon rains in April and May. It lays 

 two eggs in a slight depression in sandy ground, beneath the 

 shelter of a shrub ; they are of a buff ground-colour, and very 

 sparsely spotted with very dark sepia-brown, rather roundish 

 blots." " 



Mr. H. Parker remarks : " A solitary egg in my collection 

 measures 1-12 inch by 0-81." 



Caprimulgus unwini, Hume. Umvin's Xiyhtjiu: 



Caprimulgus unwini, Hume ; Hume, Hough Draft JV. ^* E. uo. Ill 

 bis. 



I described this species, Unwin's Xightjar, in the 'Ibis' for 1871, 

 p. 406. I had then only two specimens ; several have since been 

 procured in the far north-west. Colonel Marshall, writing from 

 Murree. says : " We found three nests of this bird on the bare 



up. 



Lieut. H. E. Barnes, writing from Afghanistan, says : '* Not 

 uncommon, and breeds in May, as I obtained a young bird barelv 

 able to ny about the end of that month." 



The eggs of this species are as usual elongated ovals, almost 

 always a good deal compressed towards the small end. The shells 

 are very fine and compact, and seem always to have a fine gloss. 

 The ground-colour appears to be typically white, and in the most 

 characteristic form of markings the egg is pretty thickly mottled 



