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outer tail-feathers all white, the tips narrowly brown; the other tail- 

 feathers without any white upon them. 



The female is paler ; the patches on the first four primaries of the same 

 extent as in the male, but rufous in colour ; the tail has no white whatever 

 on it, all the feathers being barred with black and rufous. 



Bill and gape pale brown, the former dark horny at the tip ; iris dark 

 brown ; legs and feet pale fleshy brown ; claws horny. (Bingham.} 



Length 10 inches, tail 4*5, wing 7'5, tarsus *8, bill from gape T25. The 

 female is of the same size. 



Franklin's Nightjar appears to be locally distributed in British Burmah. 

 Capt. Wardlaw Ramsay observed it at Tonghoo ; Mr. Davison procured 

 it at various localities in Tenasserim north of Amherst, and Capt. Bingham 

 in the Thoungyeen valley. There is no other record of its occurrence in 

 Burmah, but it will probably be found to occur in Arrakan. 



It is spread over Central and Southern China, and Dr. Tiraud gives it 

 from Cochin China. It is found in the hill-tracts of Eastern Bengal and 

 over the greater portion of the Indian peninsula. 



Mr. Davison found the eggs of this species in Tenasserim in March ; 

 they were two in number, and were laid on the bare ground in a slight 

 depression at the foot of a tree. In colour they appear to have been very 

 similar to those of C. asiaticus. 



416. CAPRIMULGUS ALBONOTATUS. 

 THE LARGE BENGAL NIGHTJAR. 



Caprimulgus albonotatus, Tick. J. A. S. B. ii. p. 680; Jerd. B. Ind. i. p. 194; 

 Hume, Nests and Eggs, p. 05 ; id. S. F. iii. p. 45 ; Wald. in Bl. B. Burm. p. 83 ; 

 Hume fy Dav. S. F. vi. p. 57; Cripps, S. F. vii. p. 257; Hume, S. F. viii. 

 p. 85. 



Description. Male. General aspect of plumage pale; a broad black 

 coronal streak; broad buff tips to the wing-coverts and scapulars, and 

 patches of black on the scapulars ; first primary with a white spot on the 

 inner web and a broad white patch across both webs of the next three 

 primaries ; the two outer pairs of tail-feathers with nearly two inches of 

 their tips pure white. 



The female has the plumage much the same as the male. The white on 

 the tail is tinged with rufous and is less in extent ; the marks on the 

 primaries are narrow, ill-defined and rufescent. 



Bill pinkish brown, the gape flesh-colour; iris brown; eyelids dark 

 plumbeous, the edges pinkish ; feet and claws brown. 



