CAPK1MULGCS. '4 L 



The eggs of the Madagascar Nightjar are smaller than those of 

 C. europceus, but otherwise closely resemble the common type of egg 

 of that species. They measure from -98 to 1'09 in length, and from 

 71 to '78 in breadth. 



2. Betsileo, Madagascar. Rev. W. Deans Cowan [P.], 

 8. Madagascar (Tristram Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



3. Madagascar. W. Radcliffe Saunders, Esq. [P.]. 



Caprimulgus europaeus, Linn. 



Caprinmlgus europa3iis, Thien. Fortpflanz. ges. Vog. tab. xlii. fig. 15, a-c, 

 (1845-54) ; Baedeker, Eier Eur. Vog. tab. 50. tig. 8 (1855-63) ; 

 Hewitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 270, pi. Ixvi. (1856) ; Dresser, 

 Birds Eur. iv. p. 621 (1875) ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, ii. p. 309, pi. 17 

 (1884); Whitehead, Ibis, 1885, p. 27; Hartert, Cat. Birds B. M. 

 xvi. p. 526 (1892) ; Seebohm, Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 163, pi. 47. 

 figs. 4, 5, & 6 (1896); Sharpe, Hand-L ii. p. 87 (1900). 



The majority of the eggs of the Common Nightjar have a white 

 or pale ashy- white ground-colour, and are covered with blotches, 

 veins, smears, and clouds of ashy brown, yellowish brown, or pale 

 rufous, together with underlying markings of lavender-grey. On 

 some eggs the markings almost entirely consist of well-defined 

 blotches ; on others indistinct shapeless clouds and smears, inter- 

 mingled with veins and lines. The underlying markings are always 

 very large and prominent. 



Eggs of another type have the ground cream-coloured or of a pale 

 salmon-pink colour, with the markings of the same character as 

 those described above. 



Specimens measure from I'l to 1-4 in length, and from *8 to '95 

 in breadth. 



2. Co. Waterford, Ireland, 3rd June. R, J. Ussher,Esq. [P. 



2. Co. Waterford, 19th July. R. J. Ussher, Esq. [P. 



2. Cambridgeshire (F. Bond). Seebohm Coll. 



1. Cambridgeshire (F. B.). Seebohm Coll. 

 8. New Forest, Hampshire (Hargitt Seebohm Coll. 



Coll.). 



2. New Forest (H. Saunders). Seebohm OH. 

 2. New Forest, June (H. S.). Seebohm Coll. 

 2. New Forest, 12th June (H, S.). Seebohm Coll. 



1. Alice Holt, near Bentley, Hampshire, Seebohrn Coll. 



29th July (Hargitt Coll.). 



2. Headley, Hampshire, June. Crowley Bequest. 

 1. Stanmore, Middlesex (Hargitt Seebohm Coll. 



Coll.). 



1. Finchley, Middlesex (O.S.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2. Finchley (O.S.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 2. Highgate Wood, Middlesex (O. S.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 5. Near London. Salvin-Godman Coll. 



4. Surrey. Gould Coll. 



2. Churt, Surrey, May. Crowley Bequest. 



2. Churt, June. Crowley Bequest. 



2. Churt, June. Crowley Bequest. 



