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CAPRIMULGUS KUFICOLLIS. 



(RUSSET-NECKED NIGHTJAR.) 



Caprimulgus ruficollis, Temm. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 438 (1820). 



Caprimulgus rufitorquis, Vieill. Encycl. Meth. Orn. p. 546 (1823). 



Caprimulgus rufitorquatus, Vieill. Faun. Fr. p. 142 (1828). 



Caprimulgus torquatus, Brehm, Naumannia, 1855, p. 270. 



Caprimulgus ruficollis latirostris, A. E. Brehm, Verz. Samml. C. L. Brehm, p. 3 (1866). 



Caprimulgus ruficollis brachyurus, A. E. Brehm, loc. cit. (1866). 



Caprimulgus ruficollis macrourus, A. E. Brehm, loc. cit. (1866). 



Engoulevent a collier roux, French; Noitibo, Portuguese; Zamai/a, Chota-cabras, Engafia- 

 pastores, Gallina ciega, Spanish. 



Figuros notabiles. 



Werner, Atlas, Chelidons, pi. 8 ; Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 52 ; id. B. of G. Brit. ii. pi. 2 ; Vieill. 

 Faun. Fr. pi. 62. fig. 1. 



d ad. Caprimulgo europao similis sed major et multo pallidior : collo imo torque rufescenti-ochraceo nigro- 

 fusco variegato cincto : corpore subtus rufescentiore, meiito rufescenti-ochraceo. 



$ ad. mari similis. 



Adult Male (Southern Spain) . In general coloration resembling Capr. europceus, but paler than the ordinary 

 form, and closely assimilating to the pale variety from Persia, though larger, and with the underparts 

 rather more rufous ; chin reddish ochraceous, below which there is a white patch, as in C. europceus, 

 but larger ; the lower neck encircled by a tolerably broad yellowish rufous collar, marked and varied 

 with black and dark brown; bill blackish brown; legs dull brown; iris black. Total length about 

 13 inches, gape 13, wing 7'9, tail 6'25, tarsus 0"95. 



Female. Unlike that of C. europceus the female of the present species is undistinguishable from the male, 

 and has the white markings on the wing and tail quite as much developed. 



Nestling (Southern Spain) . Upper parts covered with pale buff downy feathers, finely barred and marked 

 with black or blackish grey, and intermixed with down ; underparts covered with dull yellowish buff 

 down; the short wing-quills, which are just appearing, are black, broadly tipped and varied with 

 rufous buff. 



This, the largest and handsomest of the Nightjars inhabiting the Palsearctic Region, has a com- 

 paratively restricted range, being only found in South-western Europe and North-western Africa. 

 It has, however, straggled as far north as Great Britain, where, however, its occurrence has only 

 once been recorded, by the well-known ornithologist Mr. J. Hancock, who writes (Ibis, 1862, 

 p. 39) : — " So far back as the 6th October, 1856, I obtained a fresh-killed specimen of this rare 



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