400 CAPRIMULGID/E. 



grey at the tip and with fulvous bands ; tail pale grey ; the central feat- 

 finely vermiculatcd ; the rest with zigzag pencilling or hands of black, 

 tipped fulvous and spotted on the two lateral feathers with white ; undev tail 

 coverts fulvous. 



Length. 875 to 9-5 inches ; wing 675 to 7 ; tail 4-5 to 5. 



Hob. India generally and Ceylon. A permanent resident in Sind, breed 

 on the plains in February and March. A resident also of Kutch, Kattiawar, 

 N. Guzerat and Jodhpore. Occurs in the Punjab (Dera Ghazi Khan), 

 Beloochistan and the Deccan 



975. Caprimulgus monticolus, Frank!., P. z S. 1831, p. n6 ; 



Jerd., B. Ind. i. p 198, No. 1 14 ; Plume, Nests and Eggs Ind. B. p. 98 ; />/., 

 S,tr. F. iii. p. 46; BlytKsB. Burm. p. 83; David el Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 67 ; 

 Davison, Sir. F. v. p. 453; Hume and Dav., Sir. F. vi. p. 59; Hume, Sir. 

 F. viii. p. 85 ; Bingham, Sir. F. ix. p 151 ; Oates y B. Er. Burm. ii. p. 18. 

 FRANKLIN'S NIGHT-JAR. 



Upper surface of the body from pale ashy brown to dark ashy, variegated 

 with rufous and dusky ; under-surface of the body banded with dusky reddish ; 

 primaries brownish black ; first primary with a streak of rufous white on the 

 outer web and a large patch of white on the inner ; next three primaries with 

 a patch of white extending across both webs; tail feathers ashy brown, the 

 six middle ones with slender black undulations, and the two outer feathers 

 entirely white and narrowly tipped with brown ; tarsus bare. The female is 

 paler in colour, and has the patches on the four primaries rufous instead of 

 white ; all the tail feathers barred black and rufous. 



Bill pale brown, dark horny at the tip ; iris dark brown ; legs and feet pale 

 fleshy brown ; claws horny. 



Length. 10 inches ; tail 4*5 ; wing 7*5 ; tarsus 0*8 ; bill from gape 1*25. 



Hab. Nearly throughout India, from the extreme South to the Himalayas, 

 extending into Arrakan and Burmah, but is somewhat locally distributed. It 

 is recorded from Khandeish, Central Provinces (Mhow and Saugor), the 

 Nerbudda Valley, Godavery, Calcutta, Tonghoo, in Burmah, various localities 

 in Tenasserim and the Thoungyeen Valley. It is also spread over Central 

 and Southern China. Breeds from April to August, almost everywhere it is 

 found. Eggs, normally two in number, are laid on the bare ground in some 

 shady and concealed spot ; they are not unlike those of C. asia/tcus, but larger 

 and with more of the salmon hue and less of a stone colour, thickly clouded 

 and streaked with pale brownish-red. In size they vary from ri to 1*22 inch 

 in length and from 0*8 to 0-85 in breadth. 



976. Caprimulgus albonotatus, Tick., J.A. S. B. ii. p. 580; 



Jerd., B. Ind. i. p. 194, No. 109; Hume, Nesls and Eggs Ind. B. p. 95 ; /</., 

 Str. F. iii. p. 45 ; Wald. in BlyWs B, Burm, p. 83 ; Plume and Dav. y Sir, 



