404 PODAGERIN/3E. 



central ones, with a band of pure white near the tip, about 0*5 inch wide, and 

 the same distance from the tip. 



The female has the same dark plumage as the male, the patches on the 

 primaries are rufous, small and ill-defined ; there is no white whatever on the 

 tail, all the feathers being black, barred with rufous. (Oates.} 



Length 12 inches; tail 5'5; wing 8'4 to S'S; tarsus 0*65; bill from 

 gape 1-4. 



Hab. China, Mongolia, Eastern Siberia and Japan. Has been procured 

 near Bhamo in Native Burmah, hills of the N -E. Frontier and Nepaul. In 

 British Burmah, Gates says, it is apparently a rare bird. It has been procured 

 at Tonghoo and Tenasserim. Quoting Messrs. Blackiston and Pryer, Gates 

 says that the eggs are two in number, white, patched with grey, and that 

 they are placed on the ground, Colonel Godwin-Austen found the eggs 

 in May. 



Sub-Family-PODAGERlN^. 



Inner toe longer than the outer; tarsus longer than in the Caprimulgina ; 

 head with lengthened feathers forming ear tufts in some species. 



Gen. Lyncornis. Gould. 



Head with lengthened feathers forming ear tufts. 



982. Lyncornis cerviniceps, Gould, hones Avmm, pt. ii. pi. 4 ; 



Blyth, B. Burnt, p. 82; Wardlaw-Ramsay, Ibis, 1877, P 4595 Davison, Str. 

 F. v. p. 454 ; Hume and Davison, vi. p. 60 ; Hume, Str. F. viii. pp. 48, 85 ; 

 ix. p. 120; Bingham, Str. F. ix. p. 151. The BURMESE EARED NIGHT- JAR. 



Forehead, crown and nape clear buff, very finely vermiculated with black ; 

 ear tufts black, tipped with buff; upper plumage and wings buff, variegated 

 with chestnut and black ; tail barred, buff and black; throat and breast dark 

 chocolate brown, the feathers slightly tipped with chestnut ; a broad band of 

 white across the throat ; lower plumage black, barred with buff. (Oa/es.) 



Irides dark brown ; b.ll light horn colour ; claws light brown. 



Length. 16 inches; tail 8*5 ; wing 12 ; tarsus O'8 ; bill from gape i'j. 



Hab. British Burmah, where, according to Gates, it is generally spread all 

 over the country in suitable localities. He observed it to be very abundant at 

 the foot of the Arracan hills near Prome. Colonel Lloyd got it at Tonghoo, and 

 Capt. Wardlaw-Ramsay between Thayetmyo and Tonghoo. It frequents hilly 

 country -where the forest is dense and the ground broken up by rivers and 

 ravines. Gates adds that they associate in large flocks, roost in caves during 

 the day, and come out late in the evening as the darkness deepens and fly close 

 to the ground. An egg belonging to this species was found by Mr. Davison 

 at Malewoon in January. It was of a cream colour, marked with lilac-grey. 



