40 OAPEIMULGIB^. 



notes on the reverse of the plate that the female with young and 

 nest were obtained on the 20th May, 1856, behind Darjeeliug, 

 towards the great Eunjeet, at an elevation of between 3000 and 

 4000 feet. He adds, "young like adult, but duller hues; nest 

 nearly flat ; a soft mass of lichen and moss overlaid with a soft 

 downy vegetable substance blended into a felt-like mass." 



To Mr. Mandelli I am indebted for two nests of this species. 

 The first was found in the neighbourhood of Xamtchu in Kative 

 Sikhim on the 1st of June, and it coniahied two hard-set eggs, one 

 of which was broken by the shot, and the second Mr. Mandelli 

 most kindly sent me. ' The other nest was found in the same 

 neighbourhood ou the 26th May, and contained a single egg 

 ready to hatch off. Both nests were similarly placed, on more or 

 less bare horizontal branches of medium-sized trees at heights of 

 about 10 feet from the ground. Both nests are precisely similar 

 to each other, and \ery closely resemble Mr. Hodgson's drawing. 

 They are small circular pads barely 3| inches in diameter, and at 

 thickest about f of an inch thick. The upper surface slightly 

 hollowed into a saucer-like shape, and the lower surface hollowed 

 out into a broad groove, the pad lia^ ing manifestly rested on Ihe 

 upper surface of a horizo]ital bough 3 or 4 inches in diameter. 

 The lower surface of the pad where it was in contact with the 

 hough has a thin coating of moss ; the whole of the rest is a com- 

 pact brown felt-like mass, ^ery soft and downy, composed entirely 

 it appears to me of excessively fine moss rootlets, but withal as 

 soft as the underfur of any little mammal. 



The egg, strange as it may appear, is pure white : a moderately 

 elongated oval, and almosl entirely devoid of gloss. The female 

 was shot on the nest in each case, and one of the two also sent me 

 bv Mr. Mandelli is a typical BatraclioHomus hodgsoni. It v>\\\ be 

 seen that the egg of Batracliostmnus iiioniHr/fr is almost white. 



The egg measiu-ed 1-04 by 0-76. 



Of two other eggs of this species in my collection, one is a very 

 long narrow oval, a good deal compressed towards the small end : 

 the other egg is considerably shorter and broader ; the shell is of 

 a dull, glossless white and verv thin. The eggs were found on 

 the 2nd May, and measm-e 1-14 by 0-63 and 1-03 by 0-65. 



Caprimulgus indicus, Lath. The Jwigle JS'ir/hfjar. 



Caprimulgus indicus, Ltith., Jcnl. B. IncT, i, p. 192 : Hume, Bour/h 

 Draft K c5- H. no. 107. 



Widely distributed as is the Jungle Xightjar, I ha-\e very few 

 jiotes to record regarding its nidification. 



Colonel Butler writes: — "The Jungle Xightjar is tolerably 

 common at Mount Aboo, and breeds upon the hill m all proba- 

 bility about March, April, and May, as I observed and shot young 

 birds which had quite recently left the nest in the middle of June. 



Mr. lihodes "\V. Morgan, writing froui South India, says ; — 

 " This Xightjar breeds in all the forests and thick brushwood jungles 



