240 Journal of the F.M.S. Museums. [Vov. XI, 
Like the previous species, is only seen in open country, 
and in the manner of catching its prey it quite agrees 
with it. 
_ The stomach of one examined contained grasshoppers, 
flying ants and other insects. 
90. Nyctiornis amicta (Temm.). 
Ren Ke la spyel sO: 
é. Buo, Padang Highlands, 200 M. 
$é, @. Aur, Kumanis, Padang Highlands, 200 M. 
2¢. Balun, Muara Labu, Padang Highlands, 
480 M. 
28, @. Puntian, Kumanis, Padang Highlands, 
280 M. 
6, 6 imm., 2? imm. Rimbo Pengadang, Lebong, 
Bencoolen, 1000 M. 
6. Mt. Talamau, Ophir Districts, 500 M. 
Iris orange, bill horn black, greyish at the base of the 
lower mandible, feet light green with a bluish cast. 
The immature birds have the iris light brownish yellow. 
Wingss 76 1325713525 1305) 1305 1283) P27 Smee 
2 126, 125, 122, 121, 122 mm. 
Contents of stomach : wasps and coleoptera. 
Only to be met with in forest and there not rare ; does 
not hover as the other Meropidae, but seizes its prey by 
dashing on it from its perch on some bough. I once found 
a nest tunnel made in a nearly perpendicular earthen wall 
in the forest. The freshly excavated earth lay before the 
mouth of the tunnel. According to the natives, this was 
a nest of N. amicta, but I had no definite proof of it, because 
the bird was not in when I examined the tunnel. 
CAPRIMULGIDAE. 
91. Caprimulgus affinis affinis (Horsf.). 
IRo 5 Soy JI, 1s Sil. 
9. Singkarak, Padang Highlands, 400 M. 
48,49. Aur, Kumanis, Padang Highlands, 200 M. 
@. Sungei Penoh, Korinchi, 780 M. 
?, 2 imm. Pasir Ganting, Indrapura. 
Iris brown, bill blackish brown, the tip of the lower 
mandible pinkish sepia, feet purplish brown, soles whitish, 
claws sepia. 
Wings, ¢ 163, 165, 165, 171; 2? 160, 161, 161, 163, 
164, 166, 167 mm. 
