90 CAPRIMULGIN.E. 



Belgaum. It is only doubtfully distinct from C. indicus, and 

 might I think with advantage be suppressed. 



Caprimulgus albonotatus, Tick. 



109. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 194. 



THE LARGE BENGAL NIGHT-JAR. 



Length, 13 ; expanse, 25 ; wing, 9 ; tail, 7. 



Crown and tertiaries cinerascent, minutely mottled and marked 

 with a stripe of black dashes along the middle of the crown ; 

 upper range of scapularies black, more developed in the male, and 

 bordered more broadly externally with rufescent white ; a broad 

 white patch in front of the neck, as in several allied species ; a 

 double spot, or interrupted band of white on both webs of the 

 first four primaries contracted and rufescent in the female ; 

 two outer tail feathers broadly tipped with white in the male, 

 tinged with fulvous, or rufescent, in the female ; rictorial bristles 

 white at the base, black tipped ; altogether the females are 

 usually paler, more brown, and less ashy than the males. 



According to Tickell (quoted by Jerdon) the large Bengal 

 Night-jar is common in the jungles of Central India. 



Caprimulgus atripennis, Jerd. 



111. Jerdon's Birds of of India, Vol. I, p. 196 ; Butler, Deccan ; 



Stray Feathers, Vol. IX, p. 380. 



THE GHAT NIGHT-JAR. 



Length, 10'5 to 11; wing, 6'5 to 7'5 ; tail, 5'5 to 6. 



Males have the crown and nape dark brownish-ashy, minutely 

 mottled with black dashes along the crown ; margins of the 

 scapulars and wings white ; breast and forepart of the abdomen 

 dark, contrasting strongly with the light buffy tint of the hind 

 part of the belly ; vent and lower tail-coverts, which last tend to 

 whitish in some ; nape, breast, and back suffused with a russet 

 tinge, not seen in the other species of the group ; quills pure 

 black, not mottled at the tip ; ear-coverts ferruginous. 



In females the quills are mottled at the tips ; the Ghat Night- 

 jar has been obtained in the forest tract to the west of Belgaum, 

 but has not been recorded from any other portion of our limits. 



Caprimulgus unwini, Hume. 



111&2S. Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, p. 105. 

 UNWIN'S NIGHT-JAR. 



Length, 975 to 10'37 ; expanse, 20 to 21'5 ; wing, 675 to 

 7-25 ; tail, 4*5 to 5 "25 ; bill at front, 0'25 to 0'43 ; bill at gape, 

 1-18 to 1-31. 



Very similar to C. europceus, a description of which I give 

 below : 



Caprimulgus europaus. Plumage above and that of the throat 

 ashy-grey, thickly streaked and spotted with brown, mostly of 



