428 Mr. G. E,. Gray on a neio Species of Caprimulgus. ' 



LII. — On a new Species of Caprimulgus. 

 By G. R. Geay, F.E.S. 



Hitherto only one species of the genus Caprimulgus, and 

 that of a sombre colour, has been known as an inhabitant of 

 Madagascar. It is therefore interesting to be able to record 

 another species of this singular genus that is a well-marked 

 and showily coloured bird, viz. : — 



Caprimulgus enarratus. 



Top of the head and cheeks of a silky pale brownish grey^ 

 with a series of deep-black spots on the former, each spot very 

 narrowly margined with dark rufous ; hind head with a narrow 

 band of white tinged with rufous, and then a broad band on 

 the nape of rufous, with the end of each feather haixy and of a 

 more obscure colour ; upper part of the back black, with the 

 feathers narrowly bordered with rufous white ; the scapulars 

 deep black, with the margins of the outer web of each feather 

 more or less margined with rufous white or rufous ; the rump 

 dark brownish grey, with some of the feathers vermiculated 

 with pale rufous, and with a tear-shaped spot at the apex of 

 each feather black, surrounded with rufous white ; upper tail- 

 coverts pale chestnut-colour, with irregular ti'ansverse bars of 

 black ; tail fuscous black, with irregular transverse bars of 

 pale chestnut ; some of the bars on the middle feathers are 

 spotted with black, the two outer feathers on each side mostly 

 black and tipped with white ; wings fuscous, narrowly banded 

 with pale rufous, each feather marked at its apex with a dia- 

 mond-shaped black spot, which is margined with rufous or 

 white; quills fuscous black, the outer web of the first indistinctly 

 spotted with pale chestnut ; the outer webs of the rest are all 

 prominently spotted with the same colour, with the third, 

 fourth, and fifth quills tipped with brownish grey and banded 

 on the inner web with spots of pale chestnut ; the secondaries 

 greyish fuscous black, and irregularly barred with pale rufous ; 

 the outer feathers greyish rufous white, irregularly sj)otted 

 close to the tip with black surrounded with rufous ; under 

 wing-coverts black, and barred with pale rufous ; throat pale 

 rufous ; the jugulum with a broad black band, each feather 

 more or less surrounded on the margin with rufous or white, 

 which in some of the feathers is vermiculated with pale rufous, 

 and thus forms a band of similar marked feathers to those on 

 the back ; the under surface pale rufous brown barred with 

 fuscous. 



Total length 9" ; Avings 6" 6"'. 

 Hub. Madagascar. 



