588 AVES. 



Cuculm albopundatus, Drap., Diet. Class. d'Hist. Nat., t. iv, p. 570, 1823. 



Pseudornis dicruroides, Hodgson, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. viii, 1839, p. 136, plate. 



Surnicidus hguiris, Bonap. Consp., t. i, p. 105, 1850; Sclater, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1863, p. 209; 



Walden, Ibis, 1872, p. 368; Sharpe, Ibis, 1877, p. 8; Salvad., Ann. Mus. Civ. Gen., t. v, 



1874, p. 63 ; Sharpe, Ibis, 1877, p. 8 ; Tweedale, t. c, p. 287. 

 Cacangelus lugubris, Cab. & Heine Mus. Hein., tb. iv, p. 17, 1862. 



a. Mandalay, 20tb September 1868. 

 h. Ponsee, 21st April 1868. 



The specimen obtained in the hills at an altitude of 3,000 feet is larger than 

 the other from the plains. They differ in no other respect. 



Family— CAPRIMVL GIDM. 



Genus Capeimulgus, Linnseus. 

 38. Capeimulgtjs jotaka, Temminck und Schlegel. 



Caprimulgus jotaha, Temminck und Schlegel, Faun. Japon., p. 37, pis. xii, xiii, c. 1845; Gray, Gen. 

 B., vol. i, p. 47, 1847 ; Bonap. Consp., vol.i, p. 60, 1850; Gray, Handl. B., vol. i, p. 57, 1809 ; 

 David, N. Arch. Mus., t. vii. Bull., p. 4, 1871; Finsch., Verb. z. b. Wien, Bd. xxiii, p. 346, 

 1873 ; Blyth & Walden, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xliv, extra No., 1875; Godwin- Austen , 

 op. cit., vol. xlv, 1876, pp. 68, 83; Swinboe, Ibis, 1876, p. 331 ; Rowley's Orn. Misc., vol. vi, 

 p. 157, 1877. 



a. t Ponsee, 19th April 1868. 



I shot this bu'd on an old paddy field, and had correctly named it before it 

 was verified by comparison with birds in Europe. 



39. Caprimulgus maceurus, Horsfield. 



Caprimulgus macrurus, Horsfd., Trans. Linn. Soc, vol. xiii, p. 142, 1821; Gould, B. Austr., vol. ii, 

 pi. ix, 1848 ; Gray, Gen. B., iii, App. p. 3, 1849 ; Blyth, Cat. B. Mus., As. Soc, Bengal, p. 83, 

 1849; Reich., Vog. Neuboll, p. 185, 1850; Bonap. Consp., p. 60, 1850; Cass., Cat. Capr. Phil. 

 Mus., p. 5, 1851 ; Horsfd. & Moore, Cat. B. Mus. E. Ind. Co., vol. i, p. 112, 1854; Cab. 

 & Heine, Mus. Hein., th. iii, p. 59, 1860; Bernst., Journ. f. Orn., 1859, p. 182; Gray, 

 Proc Zool. Soc, 1861, p. 433; Jerdon, Birds of India, vol. i, p. 195, 1862; "Wall., Proc. 

 Zool. Soc, 1863, pp. 22, 484; Rosenb., Journ. f. Orn., 1864, p. 117; Gould, Handb. B., 

 Austr., vol. i, p. 100, 1865; Schleg., N. T. D., t. iii, p. 340, 1866; Blyth, Ibis, 1866, 

 p. 341; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc, 1868, p. 383; Beavan, Ibis, 1869, p. 406; Gray, Handl. 

 B., vol. i, p. 57, 1869; Hume, Stray Feathers, vol. i, 1874, p. 469, et 1875, p. 46; Salvad., 

 Ucc. Born., p. 117, 1874; Blyth & Walden, Journ. As. Soc, Bengal, vol. xliv, 1875, extra 

 No., p. 83. 



a. t Bhamo, January 1868. 



This species extends from North Australia, through Java, the Malayan Penin- 

 sula and Burma to Lower Bengal, but it is very rare in the last locality. 



