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PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM. 



\ol. 48. 



Remarks. — This, the smallest of the dark forms of the species, was 

 first described by Horsfield from Javan specimens. 1 There seems to 

 be no constant appreciable difference in either size or color between 

 the birds from Java and those from Borneo or the Philippine Islands. 

 The Caprimulgus salvadorii of Sharpe, 2 from Labnan Island, North 

 Borneo, is, therefore, a synonym of Caprimulgus macrurus macrurus. 

 The colors of the unfeathered portions in this race are, in life, as fol- 

 lows: Iris dark brown; bill grayish brown, the tip black; feet grayish 

 brown. 



There are in Caprimulgus macrurus macrurus two color *phases: 

 one in which the entire plumage is of a grayish general tone and very 

 dark; another which has a decidedly rufescent tone throughout, and 

 is always somewhat, sometimes much, paler. 



Measurements of specimens of Caprimulgus macrurus macrurus. 



Museum and No. 



U.S.N.M. 219393 3. 

 U.S.N.M. 2193913. 

 M.C.Z. 601313 



U.S.N.M. 210982 3. 



J.H.Fleming 15158 1 



A.N. S.PMla. 505303 

 A.N.S.Phila. 50495* 

 A.N.S.Phila.50496 8 



M.C.Z. 39662 3 



A.N.S.Phila.561913 

 A.N.S.Phila. 60859 « 



Sex. 



Male. 

 ...do. 

 ...do. 

 ...do. 



[Male]. 



Male . . 

 ...do... 

 [Male]. 



Male 



Female 

 ..do.... 



Locality. 



Depok, Java 



Daroe, Java 



Depok, Java 



Puerto Princesa, 

 Palawan Is- 

 land, Philip- 

 pine Islands. 



Labuan Island, 

 northern Bor- 

 neo. 



do 



do 



Kudat, northern 

 Borneo. 



Pontianak, Bor- 

 neo. 



iPalaboean, Ra- 

 \ toe, Java. 



Baram, Sarawak, 

 Borneo. 



Date. 



July 31,1909 

 June 20,1909 

 July 16,1909 

 Jan. 3, 1906 



Feb. —,1892 



June —,1893 

 May 13,1893 

 Jan. —,1895 



Feb. 11,1895 



.1898 



(Oct. 8,: 

 \ to 



[Jan. 31,: 



1899 

 Jan. —,1896 



Collector. 



W. Palmer. . 



do 



do 



A. Celestino 

 and Can- 

 ton. 



A. H. Ever- 

 ett. 



do 



do 



J. B. Bell... 



J. Biittikofer 



|j.Z.Kanne-\ 

 f gieter. 



tub 



g 



'3 

 En 



'- - 



mm. 

 170 

 180.5 

 176.5 

 172 



mm. 

 134 

 147 

 134 

 131.5 



mm. 

 10.5 

 8.7 

 11 

 10 



183 



139 



10 



182 

 175 

 186 



138 



131.5 



142 



9.5 

 9 



188 



144 



9.2 



178 



130.5 



10.2 



179 



130 



9 



mm, 

 16.5 

 16.5 

 16 

 16 



16.5 



17.5 

 17 



17 



16.5 



16.5 

 16 



3 Used in measurement averages on p. 589. 

 CAPRIMULGUS MACRURUS MESOPHANIS, new subspecies. 



Chars, subsp. — Like Caprimulgus macrurus macrurus, from Java, 

 but much larger. 



Description. — Type, adult male, No. 178092, U.S.N.M.; Amboina 

 Island, Molucca Islands, June 12, 1897; C. Schadler. Upper parts 

 deep clove brown, more or less mottled with tawny, ochraceous, buff, 

 light brownish gray, and blackish clove brown, least so on back, but 

 the pileum largely light brownish gray, medially with heavy streaks 

 of blackish clove brown, forming a broad stripe, and the scapulars 

 with broad subterminal areas of deep rich velvety blackish brown, 

 and narrower terminal markings of buff and ochraceous, these latter 

 wider on outer webs; an indistinct and much broken cervical collar 



i Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., vol. 13, 1821, p. 142. 

 a Proc. Zopl. Soc. Lond., 1875, p. 99, pi. 22, fig. 1. 



