188 CAPRIMULGID.*:. 



being an immature specimen in the Hume collection from Etawah ; 

 in summer it breeds in Kashmir, Gilgit, Afghanistan, Persia, &c. 



The Eastern form of this Nightjar, C. umvini, which occurs in 

 India, is slightly paler and greyer and a little smaller than the 

 ordinary European bird, whilst the Western European variety 

 found in England is darker. If, as usually happens, the extreme 

 forms are compared, there is a considerable difference, but many 

 Eastern European skins are nearly as pale as G. umvini. 



Habits, fyc. Those of the genus. The eggs, usually two in 

 number, are laid in May or June, and have been taken in the 

 former month by Colonel Marshall at Murree. They are glossy, 

 white, greyish white, or buff, blotched or marbled with pale purplish 

 grey, spotted on the surface with pale sepia-brown, and they 

 measure about 1-22 by -85. They are laid in a small hollow on 

 the bare ground. The note of this species is a whirring sound. 



1093. Caprimulgus macrurus. Horsfield's Nightjar. 



Caprimulgus macrourus, Horsf. Trans. Linn. Soc. xiii, p. 142 (1821) ; 

 Blyth, Cat. p. 83 ; Horsf. $ M. Cat. i, p. 112 ; Jerdon, B. I. i, p. 195 ; 

 Blyth $ Wald. Birds Burm. p. 83 ; Hume fy Dav. S. F. vi, pp. 58, 

 498 ; Cripps, S. F. vii, p. 258 ; Bingham, S. F. ix, p. 150. 



Caprimulgus macrurus, Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv, p. 204 ; Hume, S~F. 

 iii, p. 46 ; xi, p. 39 ; id. Cat. no. 110 ; Anders. Yunnan Evped., 

 Aves, p. 588 ; Gates, B. B. ii, p. 20 ; id. in Hume's N. $ E. 2nd 

 ed. iii, p. 45 ; Hartert, Cat. B. M. xvi, p. 537. 



Caprimulgus albonotatus, Tickell, J. A. S. B. ii, p. 580 (1833); 

 Blyth, Cat. p. 83 ; Jerdon, B. I. i, p. 194 ; Beavan, Ibis, 1865, 

 p. 406 ; Godw.-Aust. J. A. S. B. xxxix, pt. 2, p. 266, xlv, pt. 2, 

 p. 68 ; Bulger, Ibis, 1869, p. 155 ; Wald. in BlyiKs Birds Burm. 

 p. 83 ; Hume, 8. F. iii, p. 45 ; id. Cat. no. 109 ; Ball, S. F. vii, 

 p. 203 ; Cripps, ibid. p. 257 ; Eeid, S. F. x, p. 19 ; Gates, B. B. ii, 

 p. 19 ; id. in Hume's N. & E. 2nd ed. iii, p. 43 ; C. H. T. Marshall, 

 Ibis, 1884, p. 409; Salvation, Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen. (2) iv, p. 589; 

 Hartert (subsp. C. macruri), Cat. B. M. xvi, p. 537. 



Caprimulgus atripennis, Jerdon, III. Ind. Orn. pi. 24 (1847) ; id. 

 B. I. i, p. 196 ; Holdsworth, P. Z. S. 1872, p. 421 ; Legge, Birds 

 Ceyl. p. 340; Ball, S. F. vii, p. 203 ; Hume, Cat. no. Ill ; Butler, 

 S. F. ix, p. 380 ; Damson, S. F. x, p. 349 ; Macgregor, ibid. p. 436 ; 

 Barnes, Birds Bom. p. 90 ; id. Jour. Bom. N. H. Soc. iv, p. 7, 

 pi. fipr. Ill (egg) ; Gates in Humes N. $ E. 2nd ed. iii, p. 47; 

 Hartert, Cat. B. M. xvi, p. 542. 



Caprimulgus mahrattensis, apud Blyth, J. A. S. B. xiv, p. 206; id. 

 Cat. p. 83 ; nee Sykes. 



? Caprimulgus sp., Scully, S. F. viii, p. 236. 



The Large Bengal Nightjar, The Malay Nightjar, The Ghat Nightjar, 

 Jerdon ; Khallpecha, B. (Maunbhoom). 



Coloration. Male. General colour above brown or brownish 

 buff, varying much in depth of tint, the feathers very finely 

 mottled ; crown paler and generally greyer than back and marked 

 with elongate black spots in the middle, not at the sides ; a few 

 black shaft-stripes on the back; a rufous tinge round the neck, but 

 no distinct collar ; scapulars with large velvety-black spots and 



