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Blyth informs me that this is not an uncommon species in the 

 vicinity of Calcutta. 



13. Caprimulgus dyticivorus, nohis. [C. indicus, large var., Blyth, 



J. A. S. XIV, 208 ; the small var. there also noticed heing C. 

 Kelaarli, Blyth, J. A. S. XX, 175, from the Nilgiris and moun- 

 tains of Ceylon.] 



This species is closely akin to the Caprimulgus jotalca of the 

 Fauna Japonica ; the following heing the most striking 

 points of difference. Our's has the wing \ inch longer and 

 the heak 2 lines longer. Instead of the 2nd, 3rd and 4th 

 quills in the male having a white band, our's has a white spot 

 on the inner web of the 1st, and a band across the 2nd and 3rd 

 only. The sides of the head, greater and lesser wing-coverts, and 

 scapularies are frosted with white, and a narrow line of frosted 

 white runs from the bill to the top of the eye and extends in 

 a broken manner beyond. In most other respects it resembles 

 C. jotalca, the tail is banded with white pretty much in 

 the same style, and the tarsus is feathered to the base of the toes. 

 It stays in Amoy the greater part of October and November, 

 and is there seen hawking over paddy-fields for water-beetles 

 which fly at night. Out of the stomachs of birds shot I have 

 repeatedly taken out whole individuals of Dyticus margina- 

 tus, and in one instance two perfect specimens were so found, 

 but with the hind-legs reversed, apparently with the intention 

 of affording no impediment to the passage of so large a beetle 

 down the cesopliagus. This species breeds at Fouchow. 



Another and smaller species is met with in a copse about twelve 

 miles distant from Amoy during the months of September 

 and October. It has naked tarsi, is 10 inches long and has 

 the lateral tail-feather white except just at the tip. The 1st 

 and 2nd quills are blotched with a large spot of white on 

 each, and two white spots occur on the throat. A yellowish 

 circle girts the eye. Not having been able as yet to identify 

 the species, I have named it passim 



14. Caprimulgus stictomus, nobis. [Akin to C. monticolus, Franklin, 



and C. affinis, Horsfield ; but much richer in colouring, E. B.~] 



15. Cypselus vittatus, Jard. and Selby. 



