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dark brown. The scapulari.es and upper wing coverts 

 light rufous, mingled with grey and rich dark brown. 

 The lesser wing coverts, primaries, and secondaries, deep 

 chesnut, barred with darker brown. The first three 

 primaries have a large white oval spot on their inner 

 web, each spot from the first being slightly nearer the 

 tip of the feathers. The other primaries are tipped with 

 grey, and more deeply bordered at the ends with the 

 same colour darker. 



The first primary is about half an inch shorter than 

 the second and third, which are longest. The fourth 

 is an inch shorter than the first, and the fifth one inch 

 shorter than the fourth. Throat, cheeks, and chest, 

 light rufous, with a large white spot on the former; 

 abdomen still lighter rufous, finely barred with brown; 

 under tail coverts fawn-colour. When closed the tail is 

 grey above, divided into a cup-within-cup pattern, the 

 intervals of which at the sides are fawn-colour; below 

 the tail is fawn-colour, thickly barred with dark blackish 

 brown, and terminating with white; the three lateral 

 feathers on each side have this character above and 

 below, while the rest are dark mottled brown, tipped 

 and edged with fawn-colour. Beak black; feet and iris 

 brown. 



My figure is from a specimen sent me by Mr. 

 Tristram, marked "Bojhar Forest, 29th. May, 1856." 



It has also been figured by Vieillot, Faun. Franc, 

 pi. 62, fig. 2; Roux, Ornith. Provence, pi. 14$; Gould, 

 B. of E., pi. 52. 



Caprimulyus climaturus, the African Long-tailed 

 Nightjar, is mentioned to me in a letter by M. Dubois, 

 of Brussels, as having been accidentally captured in 

 Europe. 



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