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(completely feathered), 07 ; bill from gape, 1*45 ; weight, 

 2'95ozs. 



Feet dark brownish purple ; bill black, fleshy at gape ; 

 irides deep brown. 



This bird occurs all over the Garo, Khasi and Naga hills, 

 and God win- Austen got it in the Dafla hills. I have it also 

 from near Dibrugarh,* and I now believe that a specimen 

 sent me long ago from N.-E. Cachar, and which I then set 

 down as indicus, was really jotaha. This species seems also 

 to be generally, but very sparingly, distributed in Pegu and 

 Tenasserim. 



110. — Caprimulgus macrurus, Horsf. 



One tailless specimen of this was brought me in the 

 Western hills. 



Then, on the 10th of April, when encamped at Phalel on the 

 south-east edge of the basin just at the foot of the Eastern 

 hills, in the midst of a sea of elephant grass, a number of 

 Goat Suckers began to call just at dusk amongst the grass. 

 The call was " Tschun," " Tschun," &c. They did not 

 fly about, and I could see nothing of them ; at last I 

 spied one perched on a bare grass stem, 18 or 20 feet 

 high, calling steadily, and shot him. Two nights later 

 1 succeeded in similarly shooting another, a female, and 

 I believe the mate of the one previously obtained, for I shot her 

 off the same stem of grass. All the while we were at Phalel 

 we heard them ; when the night was wet they called nearly 

 all night, but when it was fine, only for about half an hour 

 after it became dusk. Where they went to in the day I can- 

 not conceive, as I beat that grass and all the low scrub and 

 cover on the low hills round without seeing one ; yet at night 

 there must have been dozens round the camp. 



These birds measured — 



Length. Expanse. Tail. Wing. Tarsui, Bill from Weight. 



gape. 



$ ... 12-7 240 6-8 8-4 0-67 1-51 2-85oz8. 



? .., 11-2 220 5-4 7-1 0-71 14 202o-!S. 



The feet, bare portions of bill and claws (except the serrated, 

 dilated edge of mid-toe claw, which is light yellowish horny) 

 deep brown ; irides blackish brown. 



The male is the largest Tnacrurus I think that I have seen, 

 and many would class it as albonotaius, but it has the very 

 dark breast, contrasting strongly with the abdomen, which 



* [lOlbis. — Caprimulgus jotaka, Tern. & Schl. — I give tlie measurements of 

 a male :— Length, 12-66, expanse, 23'75 ; tail, 5'71 ; wing, 8*50 ; tarsus, 0-70 i 

 bill from gape, 1-36 ; weight, 2-80ozs. Not nearly so coinmon in Dibrugarh as tha 

 next species, C, macrurus. — J. 11. 0.] 



