56 BIRDS OF TENASSERIM. 



I note further that in his remarks on the late Col. Tickells' 

 manuscript illustrations of Indian Ornithology, Ibis, 1876, 355, 

 His Lordship further remarks that the first plate in Col. 

 Tickell's volume VII, " illustrates a species of Batrachostomus, 

 obtained near Tongu-ngoo, Burma, and identified by Col. 

 Tickell with B. moniliger (Layard). The figure very acutely 

 represeuts B. affinis, Bly th, in bright chestnut plumage, a species 

 which can hardly be separated from B. moniliget.'" 



Now B. affinis never has bright chestnut plumage ; it varies 

 through the same shades as does javanensis, apud Blyth ; but 

 Lord Walden intended to refer probably to B. castaneus, nobis, 

 which is, as I originally suggested, probably one sex of B. 

 hodgsoni. 



But, admitting this, how any one who has examined a series of 

 both can possibly talk of moniliger being barely separable from 

 castaneus, altogether passes my comprehension ; affinis, Blyth, 

 castaneus, vel hodgsoni and moniliger, are three about as easily 

 separable species as can be met with. 



107. — Caprimulgus indicus, Lath. 



Blyth gives this as generally diffused throughout Burma, 

 but he probably referred to the larger race of this species^ 

 now-a-days identified as jotaka, the next species (?). 



107 bis— Caprimulgus jotaka, Tern, and Schl. (4). 



(Tonghoo, Llojd.) Choungthanoung ; Bankasoon. 



Very sparingly distributed throughout the more open portions 

 of the province. 



[Appears to me to be very rare in Tenasserim. I distin- 

 guished them from macrourus, but put them down as indicus. 

 I certainly shot the only two I saw, and these occurred quite 

 at the south of the province. — W. D.] 



The birds here entered appear to be similar to those identi- 

 fied by Godwin-Austen, the Marquis of Tweeddale and others 

 as Caprimulgus jotaka. Whether really identical with Japanese 

 specimens I am hardly in a position to decide, as I have only 

 a single Japanese bird ; but this, though slightly more rufes- 

 cent, agrees fairly well with our Tenasserim examples. 



In former lists I identified these specimens as indicus, which 

 Mr. Blyth (B. of B., p. 83) says is generally diffused in Burma, 

 extending southward to Malacca and Sumatra, and, except in 

 the matter of size, I can discover no constant point of difference 

 between the two species. 



Taking indicus to be the bird of the plains of the Punjab, 

 the North-West Provinces, Oudh, the Central Provinces, 

 and of the whole of Peninsular India, it may be broadly stated 



