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backwards, diverging as they go, and combine with the former to 

 form a complicated pattern on the back of the head and nape. The 

 more external of these two sends forward in the posterior part of 

 its coarse a branch communicating with a short longitudinal row 

 of feathers dorsal to the eye : iu the anterior part of its course it 

 blends with a triangular patch of feathers, forming the ' loral area ' 

 dorsal to the line of vibrissas that fringe the gape. Dorsal to the 

 eye, and separated by a considerable interspace from the short row 

 already mentioned, comes another more complete row, of somewhat 

 stiff and prominent feathers, and external to it again the eyelid 

 bears two incomplete rows of feathers on its dorsal surface, and 



Text-fig. 80. 



Fterylosis of head of Caprimul^us macrunts, from above and from the side, 



then a fringe of stiff eyelash-feathers at its edge ;. these eyelash- 

 feathers are continued round the edge of the lower lid also. The 

 row of vibrissae, of which 10 or 11 are conspicuously stiff, is 

 continued backward into a row of softer feathers that run between 

 the ear and the eye towards the general feathering of the back 

 of the head. ^ Immediately dorsal to them is another row of smaller 

 feathers, which may, in like manner, be traced backwards along a 

 similar course diverging somewhat from the former ; and as they 

 run below the eye they resemble, and at the anterior canthus they 



