CAPEIMULGIN^:. 89 



at the tip ; rictal bristles very strong, numerous, directed for- 

 wards ; other characters as in the sub-family. 



Caprimulgus indicus, Lath. 



107. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 192; Butler, Guzerat ; 



Stray Feathers, Vol. Ill, p. 454 ; Deccan, Stray Feathers, 



Vol. IX, p. 380. 



THE JUNGLE NIGHT-JAR. 



Length, 12 ; wing, 7'5 to 7'9 ; tail, 5'5 to 6. 



v Prevalent hue light ashy, with dusky pencillings and black 

 streaks to the feathers of the middle of the head, back, scapu- 

 lars, rump, and upper tail-coverts, and fulvous blotches on the 

 wing-coverts ; the quills with dark rufous spots or interrupted 

 bars ; the tail cinerascent, more or less dark, and the outer 

 feathers more or less tinged with rufous, with narrow black 

 bars, and numerous dusky mottlings ; the lower parts rufescent- 

 ashy with dark bars and mottlings. 



Some specimens are darker in their ground color than others, 

 and the rufescent markings are deeper. 



The male has the cheek-stripe, throat band, the spots or - 

 interrupted bands on the first three primaries, and the tips of all 

 the outer feathers, white, the latter ended by a narrow dusky 

 tip ; the female has these marks more or less rufescent, or- 

 fulvescent, and wants the white terminations to the tail-feathers ; 

 the primaries are strongly mottled towards their tips ; the first 

 primary almost equals the fourth ; the tail is slightly rounded, 

 and the wings reach to about one inch from its end. 



The Jungle Night-jar is not very common ; it affects forest and 

 hilly districts in the Deccan, and is fairly common at Mount 

 Aboo ; it is believed to be a permanent resident. 



It does not occur in Sind. 



Caprimulgus kelaarti, Sly. 



108. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 193; Butler, Deccan; 

 Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 380. 



THE NEILGHERRY NIGHT- JAR. 



Length, 11*5; wing, 7'25 ; tail, 5'75 ; tarsus, 0*6. 



Plumage generally light cinereous, much mottled with black 

 and dusky, and in parts tinged with light fawn and cream-color ; 

 ears black, edged with light rufous ; line below the ears extend- 

 ing along the gape and throat spot white ; small white marks 

 on the inner webs only of the first four quills ; all the tail- 

 feathers, except the four centre ones, tipped with white, with a 

 dusky margin ; the primaries are slightly mottled at their tip ; 

 the wings do not reach to the end of the tail. 



The Neilgherry Night-jar is very rare, and has only been 

 recorded from the Konkan and the forest tract to the west of 



