176 MY LAST NOTES ON THE AVIFAUNA OF SIND. 



arriving towards the end of August, just about the same time 

 as the Grey Quail. 



In its habits it is much more arboreal than most of the 

 other species, resting the whole day asleep (lengthways) 

 almost invariably upon a bough of some thick babool tree, 

 usually some ten or fifteen feet from the ground. 



In the evening the moment it begins to get dusk it sallies 

 forth, and commences hawkiug for insects, flying up and down 

 the avenues of trees on either side of the roads ; and skimming 

 over the high crops of jowarree which abound at that season. 



During its nocturnal peregrinations it frequently settles upon 

 telegraph wires, dead boughs or bare branches of trees, and 

 I have occasionally seen it on the ground, but it prefers the 

 telegraph. 



It is a very handsomely marked species, and the white line 

 along the edge of the lower mandible (as in C. europoeus), 

 the dusky ear-coverts and the conspicuous broad buff markings 

 of the wing-coverts, together with the silvery nature of the 

 plumage, render it easily distinguishable from any other Night- 

 jar that occurs in this part of the country. 



Many of the specimeus I preserved, presumably young 

 birds, have no white spots on either the wings or the tail, and 

 some have the lower tail-coverts conspicuously barred, whilst 

 others have them plain. However, I have forwarded Mr. Hume 

 some very good specimens, which, with one or two others sent 

 to him by Mr. Doig from the same locality, will doubtless 

 enable him to discover and point out all of these peculiarities. 

 I append measurements of nine specimens measured in the 

 flesh :— 



Sex. length. Wing. Tail. Bft. Bfg. Exp. Locality, &o. 



Legs and feet, greyish brown ; bill, dusky ; irides, blackish 

 brown. 



[See my remarks, S. F., IV., 501. At that time I was not 

 disposed to keep Unwini separate, but having now compared 

 large series of it and the European bird, I really fail to see 

 how they can be united, so long as the practice of ornithologists 

 continues to be what it is. No single specimen of the one, 



*jMLeasured and sexed by Mr, Doig, 



