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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 CAPKIMULGI. 



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 slight 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 CAPRIMULGIDJE. 



Characters same as those given for the Suborder. 



Subfamily CAPRIMULGIN^E. 

 Genera. 



a 1 . Rictus without conspicuous bristles; feathers on sides of occiput elongated, 

 forming ear-tufts; larger, wing more than 250 mm Lyncornis (p. 342) 



a*. Rictus armed with strong bristles; no elongated feathers on head; smaller, 

 wing less than 230 mm Caprinmlgus (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 VIGORS, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1831), 97. 



Lyncornis mindanensis TWEEDDALE, Proc. Zool. Soc. (1878), 945. 



Lyncornis macrotis HABTEBT, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus. (1892), 16, 605; GBANT, 

 Ibis (1894), 519; WHITEHEAD, Ibis (1899), 383; SHABPE, Hand-List 

 (1900), 2, 81; McGBEGOB and WOBCESTEB, Hand-List (1906), 57; Mc- 

 GBEGOB, 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 



