no. 2088. RACES OF CAPRIMULGUS MACRURUS— OBERHOLSER. 



593 



Were this name not a nomen nudum it would supersede Capri- 

 mulgus macrurus Tceatsi Mathews. 



Measurements of specimens of Caprimulgus macrurus Jceatsi. 



Museum and No. 



Sex. 



Locality. 



Date. 



Collector. 





'3 



73 A 



3 



CO 



hi 



03 



En 



M.C.Z. 544721 



A.N.S.Phila. 21842 » 



Male 



Female . 



...do 



...do 



Port Moresby, 

 New Guinea. 



Port Essington, 

 Northern Ter- 

 ritory, Austral- 

 ia. 



Port Moresby, 



New Guinea. 

 do 



Aug. 17,1883 



S. F. Denton 



mm. 

 183 



175 



182 

 174 



mm. 

 139 



136 



136 

 132 



mm. 

 10 



9 



mm. 

 15 



16.5 



M.C.Z. 544741 



July 28,1883 

 do 



S. F. Denton 

 do 





M.C.Z. 544731 



9 



16.5 













1 Us9d in measurement averages on p. 592. 

 CAPRIMULGUS MACRURUS ANAMESUS, new subspecies. 



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

 much paler and more grayish; like Caprimulgus macrurus bimacu- 

 latus in color, but much smaller. 



Description. — Type, adult male, No. 175143, U.S.N.M.; Tanjong 

 Kalong, Singapore Island, November 2, 1899; Dr. W. L. Abbott. 

 Upper parts brownish gray, mottled with brownish black and ochra- 

 ceous, the middle of the pileum with heavy black streaks forming a 

 stripe, the scapulars with broad subterminal areas of rich velvety, 

 slightly brownish, black, and narrower terminal markings of buff, 

 these latter wider on outer webs; an indistinct collar of ochraceous; 

 wings deep clove brown, all the superior coverts, and the quills 

 except the outermost primaries, much mottled on both webs with 

 ochraceous or buff, the greater, median, and longer lesser wing- 

 coverts broadly tipped with buff, forming three conspicuous wing- 

 bars ; a large white speculum on the four outer primaries ; tail brown- 

 ish black, much mottled with light grayish brown and ochraceous, 

 chiefly in the form of irregular bars, the two exterior pairs of feathers 

 with very broad white ends; but the terminal portion of outer web 

 of outermost feather partly dusky; chin and sides of head ochraceous, 

 finely and closely vermiculated with blackish, the auriculars least so; 

 lower throat and sides of neck ochraceous, the feathers with broad 

 terminal or subterminal markings of black; upper throat triangularly 

 white, posteriorly buffy; breast brownish gray, vermiculated with 

 clove brown and pale ochraceous, many of the feathers with blackish 

 shaft markings and buff tips ; abdomen, lining of wing, and lower tail- 

 coverts ochraceous buif, broadly barred with dark brown; "bill dark 

 brown; feet brown; eye black." 



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