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mentioned it at Abbottabad (S. F. vi 56-57); it is included with, the 

 remark " breeds m Gahs " in Buchanan's list of Hazara birds in the 

 gazetteer of that district. Rattray took 2 very hard set eggs near Dunga 

 Gali on 7th June 1904 (Jour. B. N. H. S. xvi, 660) but Magrath reports 

 It as rare at Thandiani (Jour. B. N, H. S. xviii, 284) ; according to a 

 marginal note by Andrew Anderson in my copy ot Jerdon it " lavs in 

 Murree." •' 



About Simla it is common according to G. F. L. Marshall (Journal Simla 

 N. H. S. 1886, p. 7) and A. E. Jones (Jour. B. N. H. S.xxvi, 614) the 

 latter adds the information that it prefers the barer hill side contiouous to 

 jungle and ascends to 6,000 ft. ^ 



The information regarding the Punjab plains is very meagre. Hume 

 implies that it occurs (S. F. vi, 56-57) and a female from the Hume collec- 

 tion obtained at Sirsa (no date) is catalogued by the British Museum. 



Mr. A. H. Marshall, Indian Police, informs me that he shot a specimen 

 at Kasinda, Rohtak district, in December 1910. 



I have never obtained the Jungle Nightjar personally. The call is var- 

 iously described as " tew-yo-yo frequently repeated" (Jerdon), a plaintive 

 "choo-yo-yo" (G. F. L. Marshall), a rapidly repeated " Chuck-Chug-ChurJ" 

 (Magrath), and a continuously uttered " tchouk, tchauh,tchouk" (Dresser.). 



UNWIN'S NIGHTJAR, CAPBIMULGUS EUBOPJEUS UNWINI, Hume. 



This Nightjar is the Eastern race of the Common European Nightjar C. 

 europccus europceus, Linn ; and was first described by Hume from Hazara, in 

 the Ibis. 1871, p. 406. The original description will be found reproduced in 

 Stray Feathers Vol. 111,407. It difi'ers from C. europaus in that the general 

 tint is slightly greyer and paler. The white spot on the inner web of the 

 first primary in the male always extends to the shaft and touches it as a 

 rule for a space of 10 to 15 mm. The white spot on the second primary is 

 not confined to the inner web but is always continued to the outer web in 

 the form of a white band. The under tail coverts are usually but very 

 faintly barred and frequently are quite unmarked. 



In size this race is smaller with a shorter wing on the average. Wing of 

 adult as a rule 180-186 mm. (as against 190-202 mm. in C. europceus 

 europceus) but extremes of 174 and 194 mm. have been recorded. 



The restricted distribution of this Eastern form is thus given by Hartert 

 (Vog. Pal. Fauna ii, 849) :— 



" The breeding bird in parts of Turkistan (Ferghana) Transcaspia, Persia 

 (at all events in E. and S. W. Persia), Afghanistan, lialuchistan, the Pa- 

 mirs, Kashmir and Gilgit : a winter visitor to Sindh, the Punjab, and occa- 

 sionally to the N.-W. Provinces (Etawah). A specimen was caught on a 

 ship off Cape Gardafin on 6th November ; occasionally also in South Africa 

 (Natal.)" 



In endeavouring to amplify the above distribution I have discovered the 

 followicg records with regard to Unwin's Nightjar. 



At Quetta, Delme-Redcliffe, Marshall, and Meinertzhagen have found it 

 to be a fairly common summer visitor and breeding (Jour. B. N. H. S. xv., 

 351 ; xxiii, 363 ; xxiv, 158). At Chaman just over the border in Southern 

 Afghanistan, Barnes recorded it long ago as not uncommon and breeding in 

 May, before which month he apparently did not observe it (S. F. ix. 215 

 et 453). 



Then at Thall, Rattray and Whitehead both found it to be common in 

 summer, and the former took 10 nests (Jour. B. N. H. S. xii, 343; Ibis 

 1909, 253). 



