70 AFRICAN LONG-TAILED NIGHT-JAR. 



this band commences in the inner web of the first, 

 and terminates on the outer web of the sixth quill ; 

 the remaining quills are varied with black and 

 rufous, and tipt with white. The tail is variegated 

 in the usual manner, the middle pair having about 

 twenty very slender transverse bars, but much un- 

 dulated, while the outer margin of the exterior 

 feather, and the tips of that and of the next, are 

 pure white. There is no grey in the plumage. 



Total length, with the tail, 13 inches ; wings, 5 J ; 

 the other measurements have been already given. 



THREE-SPOTTED NIGHT-JAR. 

 Scotomis trimaculatuS) SWAINS. 



Wings with a white spot on the inner web of the first three 

 quills ; tail, long, nearly even, the two outer feathers on 

 each side with broad white tips; the second and third 

 quills equal. 



THIS is clearly an undescribed species, or at least it 

 is not among the thirty-three species of Caprimulgus 

 enumerated by Yieillot, whose work*, although a 

 compilation, is certainly the best upon the species 

 of birds we yet possess ; and it is somewhat singular, 

 that out of the above number there is only one de- 

 scribed as a native of Western Africa. Our present 

 * Encyclopedic Methodique. 



