THE AFGHAN DELIMITATION COMMISSION. 83 



Order PI CARLE. 



Fam. CAPRIMULGID.E. 



80. Caprimulgus asiaticus. 



Caprimulgus asiaticus (Latli.J ; Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.-l. Co. i. p. 115 (1854). 



1. 6. Tirplml, Hari-rud. 14th April, 1885. 



2. 2 . Khusan, „ lGth April, 1885. 



81. Caprimulgus UNWINI. 



Caprimulgus unwini, Hume, Str. F. 1875, p. 407; Barnes, ibid. 1880, p. 215; Swinhoe, Ibis, 1880, 

 p. 101. 



Caprimulgus europaus, Scully, t. c. p. 79. 



1. 6. Khusan, Hari-rud. 12th May, 1885. 



Mr. Blanford is quite wrong in placing C. tmwiiii as a synonym of C. mahrattensis. 

 It belongs to another group of the genus Caprimulgus, being merely a pale form of 

 C. europceus. 



Fam. PICID/E. 



82. Gecinus gorii, sp. nov. (Plate VI. fig. 1.) 



Gecinus squamatus (nee Vig.), Horsf. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E.-I. Co. ii. p. 659 (1856-58, pt.) ; 

 C. Swinhoe, Ibis, 1882, p. 102. 



Gecinus gorii, Hargitt, Ibis, 1887, p. 74. 



1. 6. Between Padda-sultan and De-karnran. 26th October, 1884. 



This is a pale race of the Himalayan G. squamatus, and has been separated by Mr. 

 Hargitt as a distinct form, to which he has given, at Dr. Aitchison's request, the name 

 of Captain Gore, R.E., who shot the specimen above recorded. It differs from 

 G. squamatus in its generally pale coloration, and in the barring of the wing-coverts, 

 scapularies, and tail-feathers. 



Mr. Hargitt has given the following description of the species : — 



" G. similis G. squamato, sed supra dilutius viridis ; tectricibus alarum et scapularibus 

 saturatiore viridi transfasciatis ; plumis corporis inferioris squamosi linea nigra intra- 

 marginali tenui ornatis : caudse fasciis transversis albis latis, fasciis nigris angustioribus 

 (his in G. squamato latissimis, illis vero angustioribus). 



"This is a desert form of G. squama/ /is, distinguished by the following characters : — 

 Above very pale green, the wing-coverts and scapularies barred with a darker green ; 

 the squamate markings on the underparts reduced to a thread-like intermarginal line ; 

 the light bars on the quills as broad as, or even broader than, the black interspaces ; the 

 tail creamy white, narrowly barred with brownish black, these bars showing but faintly 

 on the under surface, which is strongly washed with golden yellow." 



