CAPRIMULGUS RUFIGENA.— Smith. 



AvES.— Plate C. (Male.) 



C. superne pallide purpureo-grisous, lineis undatis gracilioribus, nigro-brunneis variegatis ; tectncibus 

 alarum minoribus nigro-brunneis, late rufo-albo-marginatis ; gutture, duobus maculis albis instructo ; 

 cfenis et torque cervicale rubro-aurauteis, nigro brunneoque-variegatis. Remigibus quatuor externis, 

 brunnoo-rubris, fascia alba transversa instructis ; rectricibus duabus intermcdiis griseis, anguste 

 ninro-brunneo-fasciatis et inter fascias, lineis nigro brunneis longitudinalibus uiaculatis. 



LoNGiTUDo e rostri apice ad basin caudae i unc. 4 lin ; caudte 5 unc. 



Colour, &c. — The upper surface of the head, the back of the neck, the 

 interscapulars, the back, the upper tail coverts, and the scapular feathers 

 pearl-grey, faintly variegated with very slender transverse or oblique lines, and 

 strongly with broad longitudinal streaks, all of a liver-brown colour. The 

 streaks are most numerous along the mesial line of the head, on the back of the 

 neck, and the scapulars, and several of those on the latter are internally mar- 

 gined with buif-orange, which ofters a marked contrast to the elsewhere dark 

 hue of those feathers. The lesser wing coverts umber-brown, finely freckled 

 with reddish white, and irregularly but conspicuously tipped with biilf-orange. 

 The four outermost primary quill feathers brownish red ; the first and second, 

 with a broad white bar across the inner, vane a little nearer to the point than 

 to the base of the feather, the third and fourth with the same kind of bar 

 extending across both vanes. The rest of the primaries, the secondaries, and 

 all the tertiaries, except the three innermost, brownish red, more or less com- 

 pletely barred with rusty reddish orange ; the three tertiaries liver-brown, in the 

 course of the shafts, and towards the edges pearl-grey, freckled with liver- 

 orown. Tail feathers, with the exception of the two middle ones, dark 

 umber-brown, irregularly crossed with more or less complete narrow bars 

 composed of small reddish white spots, and the two outermost feathers of each 

 side broadly tipped with white ; the two middle tail feathers pearl-grey, with 

 narrow angular umber-brown bars, and the intervals between them, which 

 are wide, are variegated with longitudinal or waved, narrow, umber-brown 



