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tlie wing- coverts ; the quills with dark rufous spots or 

 interrupted bars ; the tail cinerascent, more or less dark, 

 and the outer feathers more or less tinged with rufous, with 

 narrow black bars, and numerous dusky mottlings ; the lower 

 parts rufescent ashy with dark bars and mottlings. Some speci- 

 mens are darker in their ground-colour than others, and the 

 rufescent markings are deeper. The male has the cheek-stripe 

 throat-band, the spots or interrupted bands on the first three 

 primaries, and the tips of all the outer tail-feathers, white, the 

 latter ended by a narrow dusky tip. The female has these marks 

 more or less rufescent, or fulvescent, and wants the white termi- 

 nation to the tail-feathers. The primaries are strongly mottled 

 towards their tips; the 1st primary almost equals the 4th; the 

 tail is slightly rounded ; and the wings reach to about 1 inch from 

 its end. 



Length, 12 inches ; wing, 7| to 7|; tail, 5^ to 6. 



This species, of all the Indian ones, most resembles C. JEuroptEiis ; 

 but that is somewhat smaller, has the scapulars more broadly 

 marked with black, and the white on the first three primaries is 

 only on the inner web ; the 1st primary, too, is proportionately 

 longer. The Jungle Night-jar is found all over India, though 

 sparingly. I have procured it from the Malabar coast, the Car- 

 natic, the Deccan, and Sikim. Mr. Blyth has it from Calcutta, 

 the Himalayas, &c. ; and it extends into the Burmese countries 

 and Malayana. It affects chiefly forest-countries, and well-wooded 

 districts. Its call is peculiar, being something like tew-yo-yo, 

 frequently repeated. 



108. Caprimulgus Kelaarti, Blyth. 



J. A. S. XX, 175 ; described in note to J. A. S. XIV, 208— 

 C. indicus, apud Jerdon, Cat. 251 — Jerd., 111. Ind. Orn., pi. 24 — 



The Neilgherry Night- jar. 



Descr. — Plumage generally light cinereous, much mottled with 

 black and dusky, and in parts tinged with light fawn and cream- 

 colour ; ears black, edged with light rufous ; line below the ears 

 extending along the gape, and throat-spot, white ; small white 



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