516 Mr. G. L. Bates on the 



Caprimulgus binotatus. 



Sharpe, Il)is, 190 1, p. 612. 



!\o. 4107. S ' Bitye, 11. Ja, February 1910. Length of 

 ■wing 140 mm. 



This is the second example of this rare and peculiar 

 Nightjar that I have obtained, the other having been killed 

 at Efulen eiglit years before at the same time of year. No. 

 4107 is smaller than the measurements given by Reichenow's 

 description, and there is a distinct diagonal buff band on 

 the scapulary feathers : both these characters may be marks 

 of the male sex, supposing the original description to have 

 been made from a female. 



SCOTORNIS CLIMACURUS. 



Keichenow, V. A. ii. p. 3(38. 



No. 3425. ? . 13itye, 11. J a, February 1909. 



Two other s)jeeimens were shot, one at Assobara in 

 January, and a second at the edge of a clearing at Bitye on 

 Christmas Day, but both were badly damaged by shot. Thus 

 all were obtained in the principal dry season ; and none 

 were in breeding condition. Like the Pennant-winged 

 Nightjars (see ' Ibis/ 1909, p. 2G) these birds seem to wander 

 into the forest in the dry season onh\ 



The one shot last Christmas rose in front of me as I 

 was walking along the border of a field of ground-nuts, and 

 settled on a smoli log not far off. There it went to sleep again, 

 and remained till I returned wn\\ my little collecting-gun. 

 No. 3425 w^as shot on the bare ground at dusk; it had been 

 making short flights, as if catching beetles in the air and 

 returning to the ground again. 



Machodipteryx macrodipterus. 



Reich. V. A. ii. p. 370. 



No. 3122. ?. Bitye, K.Ja, February 1909. Length of 

 wing 152 mm. 



This specimen is somewhat small, and lacks the rusty neck- 

 band, but seems to belong to the present species. It was 

 apparently a straggler, and was shot in the driest time of the 

 year, as were the specimens of the larger pennant-winged 



