428 Mr. G. R. Gray on a neio Species o/" Caprimulgus. 



LII. — On a nev) Species of Caprimulgus. 

 By G. R. Gray, F.E.S. 



Hitherto only one species of the genus Caprimulgus^ and 

 that of a sombre colour, has been known as an inhabitant of 

 Madagascar. It is tlierefore interesting to be able to recoi-d 

 another species of this singular genus that is a well-marked 

 and showily coloured bird, viz. : — 



Caprimulgtts enarratus. 



Top of the head and cheeks of a silky pale brownish grey, 

 with a series of deep-black spots on the former, each spot very 

 naiTOwly margined with dark rufous ; hind head with a naiTOW 

 band of white tinged with rufous, and then a broad band on 

 the nape of rufous, with the end of each feather hairy and of a 

 more obscure colour ; upper part of the back black, with the 

 feathers narrowly bordered with rufous white ; the scapulars 

 deep black, with the margins of the outer Aveb of each feather 

 more or less margined with rufous white or rufous ; the rump 

 dark brownish grey, with some of the feathers vermiculated 

 with pale rufous, and with a tear-shaped spot at the apex of 

 each feather black, surrounded with rufous white ; upper tail- 

 coverts pale chestnut-colour, with in-egular transverse bars of 

 black ; tail fuscous black, with irregular transverse bars of 

 pale chestnut ; some of the bars on the middle feathers are 

 spotted with black, the two outer feathers on each side mostly 

 black and tipped with white ; Avings fuscous, naiTowly banded 

 with pale riifous, each feather marked at its apex with a dia- 

 mond-shaped black spot, which is margined with rufous or 

 white; quills fuscous black, the outer web of the first indistinctly 

 spotted Avith pale chestnut ; the outer webs of the rest ai-e all 

 prominently spotted with the same colour, with the third, 

 fomth, and fifth quills tipped with browniish grey and banded 

 on the inner web with spots of pale chestnut ; the secondaries 

 greyish fuscous black, and irregularly barred M'itli pale rufous; 

 the outer feathers greyish rulbus white, iiTCgularly spotted 

 close to the tip with black surrounded Avith rufous ; mider 

 wing-coverts black, and ban'cd Avitli ])ale rufous ; throat pale 

 rufous; the jiigulum AA-ith a broad black band, each feather 

 more or less siuTOundod on the margin Avith rulous or white, 

 AA^hich in some of tlie feathers is A-ermiculated with ])ale rulbus, 

 and thus forms a band of similar nuirked featiiors to those on 

 the back ; the under surface pale rufous brown barred Avith 

 fuscous. 



Total length 9" ; wings 6" iV<'. 



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