CAPRIMULGUS LENTIGINOSUS.- Smith. 



AvES. — Plate CI. (Female.) 



C. superne nigro-brunneus, lineis maculisque lactifloribus variegatis ; torque cervicale coloris cjusdeni ; 

 remigibus piiraariis iuternis, secondariisque rubro-auranteo-fasciatis ; gutture inter niandibulse 

 extremitates posteriores macula alba instructo ; pectore fusco, niaculis lactifloribus variegato ; 

 abdomine pallida rubro-auranteo, brunneoque transverse ta;niolato. 



LoNGiTUDo e rostri apice ad basin caudoe 5 unc. 2 lin. ; cauda? 5 unc. -i lin. 



Colour. — The ground colour of the upper parts of the head, neck, and 

 body liver-brown, freely speckled with small spots, waved lines, and irregular 

 blotches of pale buff-orange. The latter most numerous on the shoulders and 

 neck anterior to the interscapulars, where they form a sort of demi-coUar ; 

 the variegations are most profuse on the neck, shoulders, and scapulars. On 

 the throat, between the hinder extremities of the lower jaw, a large white 

 blotch ; the other parts of the neck, anteriorly, liver-brown, narrowly barred 

 with buff-orange. Breast dull liver-brown, freckled, and blotched with buff- 

 orange ; belly and vent pale reddish orange, the former scantily banded 

 transversely with umber-brown. Under tail coverts barred with umber- 

 brown. Primary and secondary quill feathers brownish red, the four outer- 

 most of the former with a white spot on inner vane rather nearer to the tip 

 than quill ; towards the point these quill feathers are irregularly banded or varie- 

 gated with pale buff-orange lines, and the inner primaries and the secondaries 

 are on the outer vanes deeply barred with a tint intermediate between tile- 

 red and buff-orange ; tertiary quill feathers brownish red, ];)rofusely variegated 

 with oblique lines of buff-orange. Tail feathers umber-brown, barred irre- 

 gularly with pale buff-orange, and the four or six middle feathers be- 

 tween these bars are profusely variegated with narrow, oblique, pale buff 

 orange lines. Eyes dark brown. Tarsi and toes light brownish red; claws 

 reddish brown. 



