CAPRIMULGUS LEOPETES. 



delicately marked between ; the exterior feather is pure white, a single 

 black bar nearly in the centre, and beneath it two patches of the same co- 

 lour on the inner web only; the two next are also pure white, but have the 

 tips and edge of the outer webs for about two-thirds down entirely black ; 

 the fourth has the outer web entirely black, the second, third and fourth 

 have the outer webs obscurely barred with chesnut towards the base, with 

 a very deep bar of black running through the whole feather, about an inch 

 from the base ; the four feathers on each side will be thus black and white, 

 the centre four, shaded with grey and chesnut, and variegated as in the 

 common Goatsucker with black ; the tail-coverts are of the same colours, 

 with the same sort of markings as the centre tail feathers. We have been 

 thus minute and verbose in our description, from the difficulty we found 

 when making out our specimen. The colour and markings of the whole 

 of this beautiful genus are very similar, and some species are so closely al- 

 lied, that minute details are requisite, which it is often difficult to reconcile 

 to the senses of either writer or reader. 



