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respectively, and only about 075 and 0-44 in the female, and in the latter sex 

 the white is less pure. Both sexes have a white spot on the inner webs of the 

 first three, and a corresponding one on the outer webs of the second and third 

 primaries ; but here again, while the white spots on the inner webs of the male 

 are about one inch broad, those of the female are about half of that size." IL> 

 adds : " The best description I can give of its plumage is, that it is an exces- 

 sively pale version of C. Indicus, and that while (with the exception of the 

 difference in the size of the white markings on tail and wings) the sexes 

 closely resemble each other, the under tail coverts of the male are a uniform 

 rufous buff, while those of the female are somewhat paler and are very dis- 

 tinctly barred with narrow bars more than a quarter of an inch apart" ; but Mr. 

 W. T. Blanford, in a letter to the Ibis, vol. i., 1877, pp. 249-250, states 

 "that after examining all Mr. Hume's specimens of this species with speci- 

 mens of C. Europceus, (a large English female and a male specimen from 

 Europe,) the sex of one of the types of C. Unwinii was probably wrongly 

 determined, and that instead of being male and female, both skins are those of 

 males, and that they are quite distinct from C. Mahr attends, and belong to the 

 pale grey race of C. Europceus, of which he obtained specimens in S.-E. 

 Persia." He adds " whilst the name of C. Unwinii must become a synonym, 

 C. Europceus must be added to the Indian fauna." 



The following is a description of Caprimulgiis Europceus, Linn. : 

 Plumage above and that of the throat ashy grey, thickly streaked and spotted 

 with brown, mostly of a yellowish tinge ; head and neck with longitudinal 

 blackish streaks ; a white stripe beneath the base of the lower mandible extends 

 along each side of the lower part of the head, and there is a central patch of 

 white upon the throat. Primaries, secondaries, and tertiaries dark brown ; the 

 outer webs blotched with reddish brown, and the three exterior feathers with a 

 large white patch near the tips of the inner webs. Tail irregularly marked 

 and indistinctly barred with blackish grey and yellowish brown ; the two 

 external feathers on each side white at their termination ; plumage of under 

 parts yellowish brown ; tarsi paler. Female like the male, the white spots on 

 quills and tail feathers absent. 

 Length* IO'3 to io'6 inches ; expanse 21 ; wing 6 to 6*2 ; tail 4*5 to 5. 



This species is a visitant to Sind, and has hitherto been found at Hydrabad 

 and in its neighbourhood, also in Beloochistan and Afghanistan, Nepaul, 

 Gilgit, and Persia. Breeds in Afghanistan at Chaman, where Lieut. H. E. 

 Barnes obtained unfledged birds. It arrives in September and remains till 

 about the end of October, some few being seen as late as the first week 

 in November. 



979 CaprimulgUS indiCUS (Latham), Jerd., Ill Ind. Orn. letter 

 press to pi. 24 (in part); id., B. Ind. i. p. 192, No. 107 ; Hume, S/r. F. iv. 

 p. 381 ; id., vi. pp. 56-57. The JUNGLE NIGHT- JAR. 



