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a yellowish tinge ; head and neck with longitudinal blackish 

 streaks; a white stripe beneath the base of the lower mandilble 

 extends along each side of the lower part of the head, and there 

 is a central patch upon the throat ; primaries, secondaries, and 

 tertiaries dark-brown ; the outer webs blotched with reddish- 

 brown and the three exterior feathers \uth a large white patch near 

 the tips of the inner webs ; tail irregularly marked amd indistinctly 

 barred with blackish-grey and yellowish-brown ; the two external 

 feathers on each side white at their termination ; plumage of 

 under parts yellowish-brown ; tarsi paler ; female like the male, 

 the white spots on the quills and tail feathers absent. 



The following is a description of G. unuini : 



This species has the upper three-fourths of the tarsus feathered 

 in front. 



In both sexes the two outer feathers on each side are tipped 

 with white, but the tippings are about 1 55 and TO broad in the 

 male on the outer and penultimate feathers respectively, and only 

 about 075 and 0*44 in the female, and in the latter sex the white 

 is less pure ; both sexes have a white spot on the inner webs of the 

 first three, and a corresponding one on the outer webs of the 

 second and third primaries ; but here again, while the spots on 

 the inner webs of the male are about one inch broad, those of the 

 female are about half the size. 



Within our limits, this Night-jar has only been obtained in 

 Sind, where it is very common. 



Caprimulgus asiaticus, Lath. 



112. Jerdon's Birds of India, Vol. I, p. 197 ; Butler, Guzerat ; 



Stray Feathers, Vol. Ill, p. 455 ; Deccan, Stray Feathers, 



Vol. IX, p. 380; Murray's Vertebrate Zoology of Sind, 



p. 106 ; Swinhoe and Barnes, Central India ; Ibis, 1885, 



p. 60. 



THE COMMON INDIAN NIGHT-JAR. 



Length, 9 ; expanse, 18 ; wing, 5'5 to 6 ; tail, 4'5. 



Pale rufescent-ashy, the feathers finely mottled with dusky; 

 the top of the head (as usual), marked narrowly with black ; a 

 distinct rufescent collar with black marks ; the black markings 

 on the scapulars not extended, but they are much edged 

 with buff, as are all the wing-coverts ; back not streaked with 

 black ; quills with a white spot on each of the first four feathers 

 and mottled at the tip ; the outermost feathers are tipped with 

 white, and there is a white spot on the neck ; the lower parts are 

 lightly mottled and barred. 



The Indian Night-jar is common throughout the district 

 and is a permanent resident, breeding during April and May. 

 The eggs (there is no nest) are two in number, and are laid on 

 the bare ground ; they vary from a warm pinkish stone-color to 

 a deep salmon-pink, and are clouded, blotched, and streaked with 



