no. 2088. RAGES OF CAPRIMULGUS MACRURUS— OBERHOLSER. 591 



of tawny; wings dull clove brown, all the superior coverts, and the 

 quills except the four outermost primaries, much mottled on both 

 webs with buff, ochraceous or tawny, the greater, median, and longer 

 lesser wing-coverts broadly tipped with buff, ochraceous buff or cream 

 buff, forming three conspicuous, somewhat irregular wing-bars; a large 

 white speculum on the four outer primaries, occupying only the inner 

 web of the outermost feather, but both webs of the rest, and passing into 

 an ochraceous buff smaller spot on the fifth quill; tail deep blackish 

 clove brown, more or less mottled with dull light grayish brown and 

 ochraceous, most so on the middle feathers, and chiefly in the form 

 of irregular and partly obsolescent bars, the two exterior feathers on 

 each side with very broad white ends, but the terminal portion of 

 outer web of these two outer feathers laterally a little shaded with 

 dusky; chin and sides of head tawny, barred and vermiculated with 

 blackish clove brown, the auriculars ochraceous and but little marked 

 with dark brown; lower throat and sides of the neck tawny and tawny 

 ochraceous, heavily barred with blackish clove brown; upper throat 

 triangularly white; breast grayish clove brown, so much barred and 

 vermiculated with pale brownish, grayish, tawny, ochraceous, buff, 

 and whitish that the ground color is largely obscured; abdomen, lin- 

 ing of wings, and lower tail-coverts ochraceous tawny, broadly barred 

 with clove brown, the longest lower tail-coverts paler and but little 

 barred. 



Measurements. — Adult male: 1 Wing, 189 mm.; tail, 140; exposed 

 culmen, 10.5; tarsus, 14. 



Type-locality. — Amboina Island, Molucca Islands. 



Geographical distribution. — The Molucca Islands. 



'Remarks. — This race includes the large dark birds from the 

 Molucca Islands and probably also neighboring islands to the south 

 and east, which many authors have apparently considered the 

 typical Caprimulgus macrurus macrurus. The latter really is, as 

 already noted, a much smaller bird. The type of Caprimulgus 

 macrurus mesophanis is the only specimen that we have actually 

 examined. 



CAPRIMULGUS MACRURUS YORKI Mathews. 



Caprimulgus macrurus yorki Mathews, Novit. Zool., vol. 18, January 31, 1912, 

 p. 291 (Cape York, northern Queensland, Australia). 



Chars, subsp. — Similar to Caprimulgus macrurus mesophanis, but 

 smaller. 



Measurements. — Wing, 179 mm. 2 



Type-locality. — Cape York, northern Queensland, Australia. 



Geographical distribution. — Northern Queensland. 



Remarks. — This subspecies I have not seen, and if Mr. Mathews' 

 measurements represent the average size, the race is but possibly 



1 One specimen, the type. 



2 Mathews, Novit. Zool., vol. 18, January 31, 1912, p. 291. 



