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The egg was a pale salmon-colour, clouded witb a darker shade of 

 the same hue ; it was of the same cloudj' type as eggs of G. asiaticus, 

 and not boldly streaked Uku those of U. umuiiii, iiunie, or C 



In length these eggs vary fi-om 1'08 to 1"3 inch, and in breadth 

 from 0-85 to 0'9o inch ; but the average of a large series is 1'2 by 

 0-89 inch. 



Caprimulgus jotaka, Temm. & Schleg. The Japanese Myhtjar. 



Caprimulgus jotaka, T. 1^- S., Hume, Cat. no. 107 bis. 



Colonel Grodwin-Austen gives the following account of the 

 nesting-place and eggs of the Japanese Nightjar in the Naga 

 Hills ; — " 1 shot this bird near the TJmshirpi falls on the 29th 

 May. It got up oS the path and immediately settled again about 

 10 yards off on the open path ; on again putting it up, it did the 

 same. Captain Badgley, who was walking behind nie, called out 

 that he had found the eggs. I then put the bird up a third time, 

 and brought her down. The eggs were laid close in under the 

 rock on side of the path, lying on the bare ground, with no signs of 

 anything in the way of preparation for them or the young. The 

 two eggs are of a dull white, blotched with three shades of umber 

 and one shade of ashy brown : in the one they are distributed 

 pretty e>'enly throughout, and this is symmetrical in form, the 

 minor axis being in the centre of the length ; in the other the 

 markings are mostly confined to the larger end and the shape is 

 rounder. They measure 1-22 by 0-88 and 1-19 by 0-91." 



Caprimulgus macrurus, Horsf. The Malaij Nightjar. 



Caprimulgus maorourus, Horsf., Jercl. B. Ind. i, p. 195; Hume, 

 Cat. no. 110. 



Major C. T. Bingham, writing of the nidiflcation of this Night- 

 jar in Tenasserim, says : — 



" This is the commonest Nightjar, and, as Mr. Davison remarks 

 (S. ]?. \o\. vi. p. 68), its incessant call of tok-tok-tok is very 

 annoying at night. 



" It is common in the Thoung3''eeu valley even in dense e\er- 

 green forest. On the 15th March, 1879, while tramping back to 

 my camp pitched on the bank of the Queebawchoung, a tributary 

 of the Meplay, I arrived about dusk at a dense bamboo-forest just 

 above my tent. Thei'e being lots of fallen bamboos, I had to 

 carefully pick my steps in threading my way through, and so 

 doing all but trod on a female of the above species ; she flew up, 

 and I saw lying on the dry bamboo-leaves a couple of blunt oval 

 eggs, pinkish stone-colour, with washed-out purple blotches, clouds, 

 and spots of various shades. 



" Both these I found slightly set, and a third one half formed in. 



