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The eggs of the Madagascar Nightjar are smaller than those of 

 C. europceuSj but otherwise closely resemble the common type of egg 

 of that species. They measure from -98 to 1-09 in length, and from 

 •71 to -78 in breadth. 



2. Betsileo, Madas-ascar. Rev. W. Deans Cowan [P.]. 

 8. Madagascar (Tristram Coll.). Crowley Bequest. 



3. Madagascar. W. RadclifEe Saunders, Esq. [P.]. 



Caprimulgus europaeus, Linn. 



Caprimulgus europaeus, Thiert. Fortpflam. ges. Vog. tab. xlii. fig. 15; a-c 

 (1845-64) ; Baedeker, JEier Eur. Vog. tab. 60. fig. 8 (1855-63) ; 

 Hewitson, Eggs of Brit. Birds, i. p. 270, pi. Ixvi. (1856) ; Dresser, 

 . Birds Eur. iv. p. 621 (1875) ; Seebohm, Brit. Birds, ii. p. 309, pi. 17 

 (1884) ; Whitehead, Ibis, 1885, p. 27 ; Hariert, Cat. Birds B. M. 

 xvi. p. 526 (1892) ; Seebohm, Eggs of Brit. Birds, p. 163, pi. 47. 

 figs. 4, 5, & 6 (1896) ; Sharpe, Hand-l. ii. p. 87 (1900). 



The majority of the eggs of the Common Nightjar have a white 

 or pale ashy-white ground-colour, and are covered with blotches, 

 veins, smears, and clouds of ashy brown, yellowish brown, or pale 

 rufous, together with underlying markings of lavender-grey. On 

 some eggs the markings almost entirely consist of well-defined 

 blotches ; on others indistinct shapeless clouds and smears, inter- 

 mingled with veins and lines. The underlying markings are always 

 very large and prominent. 



Eggs of another type have the ground cream-coloured or of a pale 

 salmon-pink colour, with the markings of the same character as 

 those described above. 



Specimens measure from I'l to 1-4 in length, and from -8 to '95 

 in breadth. 



Co. Waterford, Ireland, 3rd June. R. J. Ussher, Esq. [P.]. 



Co. Waterford, 19th July. R. J. Ussher, Esq. [P.]. 



2. 



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2. Cambi-idgeshire (F. Bond). Seebohm Coll. 



1. Cambridgeshire (F. B.). Seebohm Coll. 

 8. New Forest, Hampshire (Sargitt Seebohm Coll. 



Coll.). ' 



2. New Forest {II. Saunders). Seebohm Cull. 

 2. New Forest, June (H. S.). Seebohm Coll. 

 2. New Forest, 12th June (H. S.). Seebohm Coll. 



1 . Alice Holt, near Bentley, Hampshire, Seebohm Coll. 



29th July {Eargiit Coll.). 



2. Headley, Hampshire, June. Crowley Bequest. 

 1. Stanmore, Middlesex {Hargitt Seebohm Coll. 



Coll.). 



1. Finchley, Middlesex (O.aS.). Salvin-Godman Coll, 



2. Finchley (O. iS.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 



2. Highgate Wood, Middlesex (0.;S.). Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 5. Near London. Salvin-Godman Coll. 

 4. Surrey. Gould Coll. 



3. Churt, Surrey, May. Crowley Bequest. 

 2. Churt, June. Crowl^ Bequest. 

 2. Churt, June. Crowley Bequest. 



