CAPRIMULGUS NATALENSIS.— Smith. 



AvEs.— Plate XCIX. (Male.) 



C. rufo-albo, subflavo, nigro-brunneoque variegatus ; plumis scapiilaribus niaculis obloiigis nigro-brunneis 

 signatis ; gutture antice macula alba subtriangularc instriicta ; remigibus quatuor exteruis bninneo- 

 rubris, singulo, macula alba instructa ; cauda nigro-brunneo-fasciata. 



LoNGiTUDO e rostri apice ad basin caudw 4 unc. lln. ; caudiu 4 unc. C lin. 



Colour. — The featliers of the upper surface of the head and of the posterior 

 part of the neck Uver-brown, broadly margined and tipped with reddish 

 orange ; eyelids mottled light reddish orange, white, and liver-brown ; the two 

 first in small blotches, the latter in narrow transverse lines. Ear coverts and 

 feathers immediately posterior to them liver-brown, crossed with some fine 

 narrow lines of reddish orange ; the feathers of the anterior part of the throat 

 pale reddish orange, narrowly barred transversely witii liver-brown ; those at 

 and behind the angle of the month, as also those on the centre of the 

 throat, white. Between the white marks, and on the throat in front of the 

 breast, the feathers are liver-brown, barred, and tipped with reddish orange. 

 Interscapulars umber-brown, finely mottled at their edges witii light reddish 

 orange ; back and upper tail coverts umber-brown, barred and tipped with 

 reddish orange. Scapulars with a number of strongly marked and well- 

 defined oblong liver-brown spots, each more or less distinctly edged with 

 white or light buft'-orange. These spots are arranged in somewhat longi- 

 tudinal rows, one about the middle of each feather, and, from their so strongly 

 contrasting with the other colours, constitute a ready and available character. 

 The other portions of the scapularies light buft'-orange, closely barred trans- 

 versely with delicate liver-brown lines. Lesser wing coverts umber-brown, 

 mottled with reddish white spots and reddish orange lines. Quill coverts 

 umber-brown, incompletely barred with reddish orange. Primary quill 

 feathers brownish red. The four outermost of each wing with a large white 

 blotch on the inner vane, about midway between the quill and tip of the 

 feather ; the corresponding parts of the outer vane of the third and fourtli 



