GG CAPRIMrJLGlD.E. 



pale olive-brown and lavender-grey. On some specimens the 

 markings of the former colour are so pale as to be hardly noticeable. 

 Specimens measure from 1/08 to 1*21 in length, and from *75 to 

 85 in breadth. 



2. Eastern Narra, Sind (S. Doig). Hume Coll. 



2. Eastern Narra, 18th Feb. (8. D.). Hume Coll. 



2. Eastern Narra, 20th Feb. (S. D.). Hume Coll. 



2. Eastern Narra, 20th Feb. (S. D.). Hume Coll. 



1. Eastern Narra, 21st Feb. (S. D.). Hume Coll. 



2. Eastern Narra, 22nd Feb. (S. D.). Hume Coll. 

 2. Eastern Narra, 23rd Feb. (S. D.}. Hume Coll. 

 1. Eastern Narra, rd April (S. D.). Hume Coll. 

 1. Eastern Narra, 2nd May (S. D.). Hume Coll. 

 1. Eastern Narra, 22nd July (S. D.}. Hume Coll. 



1. Eastern Narra, 25th July (S. D.). Hume Coll. 



2. Eastern Narra, May (E. A. Butler}. Crowley Bequest. 

 2. Eastern. Narra, 10th Feb. (S. Doig : Crowley Bequest. 



Field Coll.). 



Caprimulgus aegyptius, Licht. 



Caprimulgus isabellinus, Koenic/- Warth. J. f. 0. 1868, p. 366 ; Heugl. Vog. 



N.O.-Afr. tab. xliii. fig. 8 (1873). 

 Caprimulgus segyptius, Dresser, B. Eur. iv. p. 629 (1881) ; Seebohm, Brit. 



Birds, ii. p. 315 (1884); Hartert, Cat. Birds B. M. xvi. p. 562 



(1892) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. ii. p. 86 (1900). 



The eggs of the Egyptian Nightjar in the Collection are not 

 separable from many of the eggs of C. europceus, described below. 

 They are ashy white, marked with yellowish brown and lavender- 

 grey, and measure respectively: 1*19 by *8 ; 1/17 by *81. 



2. Damietta, Egypt, 17th May (Field Crowley Bequest. 

 Coll.). 



Caprimulgus asiaticus, Lath. 



Caprimulgus asiaticus, Bear-an, P. Z. S. 1864, p. 375 ; Legge, Birds Ceylon, 

 p. 343 (1878) ; Barnes, Journ. Bomb. Nat. Hist. Soc. iv. p. 7, pi. . 

 fig. 112 (1889) ; Outes eel. Hume, Nests $ Eggs 2nd. Birds, iii. p. 48 

 (1890) ; Hartert, Cat. Birds B. M. xvi. p. 558 (1892) ; Blanf. Fauna 

 Brit. 2nd., Birds, iii. p. 186 (1895) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. ii. p. 86 (1900). 



The eggs of the Common Indian Nightjar exhibit a considerable 

 amount of gloss, and are of a pale salmon-pink colour, blotched, 

 smeared, and occasionally spotted with brown and purplish grey. 

 The brown markings on many specimens are tinged with red, on 

 others with purple. Examples measure from -97 to 1-15 in length, 

 and from '71 to *83 in breadth. 



2. India. Crowley Bequest. 



3. India. Hume Coll. 



2. Sambhur, Rajputana, 27th April Hume Coll. 



(R. M. Adam). 



3. Hosh'ingabad, C. Provs., 22nd July. Hume Coll. 



