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CAP1UMULGUS ATRIPENNIS, 



and the commencement of the monsoon ruins in April and May. It lays two eggs in a slight depression in 

 sandy ground, beneath the shelter of a shrub; they are of a buff ground-colour, and very sparsely spotted 

 with very dark sepia-brown, rather roundish blots. I have seen several eggs, and have not detected any of the 

 streaky markings peculiar to those of other Nightjars. I unfortunately have no data of the size of this 

 Nightjar's eggs, as 1 omitted to measure those which I examined in Mr. MacVicar's collection; they are, 

 however, considerably larger than those of the next species, measuring, according to Layard, " 14 lines by 

 11 lines." The dimensions given by Mr. Hume of a pair of eggs from the Nilghiris, viz. IT3 inch by 0'72, 

 and 101 by 074, are, I am sure, inferior to those of Ceylonese birds. 



