CAPRIMULGUS EUROP^US.-Aucx. 



AvES. — Plate CII. (Female.) 



C. pallide griseus, lineis, nigro-brumieis, transversis, longitudlnalibusque instnictus ; tectricibus alarum 

 niinoribus maculis subalbis notatis lineam obliquam formantibus ; reraigibus brunneo-rubris, aurantio- 

 rubro-fasciatis ; gutture, antice, fascia transversa alba, instructa ; abdoraiiie subrufo lineis brunneis 

 transversis variegate. 



LoNGiTUDO e rostri apice ad basin caudaa o unc. 9 lin, ; caudse 5 unc. 



Coi,ouR. — The ground colour of the upper surface of the head, the hinder 

 surface of the neck, the interscapulars, the back, the tail coverts and the sca- 

 pulary feathers pearl-grey, variegated with longitudinal stripes, and fine, 

 transverse, Avaved lines of liver-brown, the stripes along the centre of the 

 head broadest and almost contiguous. The scapulars adjoining the wings 

 are marked with several, short, broad, oblique liver-brown bars and narrow 

 cream-yellow lines, and the inner ones with broad longitudinal liver-brown 

 stripes. Ear coverts, feathers immediately behind them and those below 

 the lower eyelid, reddish-orange, freely freckled with liver-brown, and below 

 the last-mentioned feathers there is a distinct white siripe, which commences 

 at the angle of the mouth and terminates on the side of the neck ; below this 

 stripe the feathers are rusty-white, closely barred with narrow liver-brown 

 lines; throat superiorly crossed by a broad white band, many of the feathers 

 barred with umber-brown ; behind this band the front and sides of the neck 

 are rusty white, barred with liver-brown ; lesser wing coverts umber-brown, 

 those nearest the bend of the wing finely barred with reddish orange, those 

 towards the quill feathers variegated with reddish orange and cream-yellow 

 spots, in addition to the transverse bars. The cream-yellow spots are so 

 arranged as to form a sort of oblique spotted band across the wing. Primary 

 and secondary quill coverts umber-brown, narrowly barred and tipped with 

 cream-yellow ; primary quill feathers brownish red, barred with light reddish 

 orange, the bars more or less speckled with umber-brown stripes or spots ; 

 secondary and tertiary quill feathers umber-brown, the outer vanes freely 



