CAPRIMULGUS. 403 



Upper surface of the body pale ashy, with dusky pencillings and black 

 streaks on the head, neck behind, back, scapulars, rump, and upper tail 

 coverts : wing coverts the same and with fulvous spots or blotches ; tail 

 cinereous, with narrow black bars and dusky mottlings, the outer feathers 

 tinned with rufous; all except the middle feathers with a subterminal white 

 spot; tarsus feathered; quills with dark rufous spots or interrupted bars, 

 on the first three primaries ; beneath rufescent ashy, with dark bars and 

 mottlings. 



The female has these marks more or less rufescent and wants the white 

 terminations to the tail feathers ; the primaries are strongly mottled towards 

 their tips ; the first primary nearly equals the fourth. Bill dusky brown ; 

 irides hazel. 



980. Caprimulgus Kelaarti, Biyth, J. A. S. B. xx. p. 175; 



id., J. A, S. B. xiv. p. 208; Jerd., III. Ind. Orn. pi. 24; Hume, Sir. F. \M. 

 p. 381. The NEILGHERRY NIGHT-JAR. 



Plumage above and below light cinereous, tinged on the scapulars and 

 under surface with pale fawn ; head, neck, back, scapulars, rump and upper 

 tail coverts mottled and pencilled with black and dusky ; ear coverts black, 

 edged with light rufous ; a line from below the ear coverts to the gape, also the 

 throat white ; first four primaries with a white spot on the under web ; all 

 mottled at the tips except the middle feathers, all the tail feathers tipped with 

 white and margined with dusky. Bill dusky brown ; irides brown. 



Length. 1 1*5 inches ; tail 575 ; wing 7' to 7-2. 



Hab. The Neilgherries, Central Provinces, on the Ghauts and Ceylon. 

 Hume says it breeds throughout Southern India and the Central Provinces 

 from February to August ; the eggs, not unlike those of other species, are laid 

 in a depression in the ground under a bush or tuft of grass. They are two in 

 number, and resemble exactly those of C. indicus. 



981- CaprimulgUS jotaka, Tern., PI. Schleg. Faun. Jap. Aves. 

 p. 37, pis. xii.-xiii.; Wald. in Blyth, B. Burm. p. 83 ; Godwin- Aust., J. A. 

 S. B. xliii. pi. ii. p. 153; Dav. et Oust. Ois. Chine, p. 67; Anderson, 

 Yunnan Exped. p. 588 ; Hume and Dav., Str. F. vi. p. 56 ; Hume, S/r. F. 

 viii. p. 85; Scully, torn. cit. p. 236; Oates, B. Br. Burm. ii. p. 21. Capri- 

 mulgus indicus, apud, Blyth, JB. Burm. p. 83; Hume and Dav., vi. p. 56. 

 The JAPANESE NIGHT-]AR. 



Of very dark colour, most of the marks on the upper plumage being black ; 

 first primary with a white spot on the inner web not reaching to the shaft ; 

 no patch on the outer web; second and third primaries with a patch of white 

 across both webs ; fourth primary with a white patch on the inner web and a 

 rufescent one on the outer ; in some specimens the patches on the outer webs 

 of the second and third primaries are rufous ; all the tail feathers except the 



