1845.] little known Species of Birds. 547 



and II.), and Ath. boobook, (Lath.), evidently pertain to Mr. Hodg- 

 son's genus Ninox* 



Caprimulgus macrurus, Horsfield, is figured as an inhabitant of 

 Port Essington, in North Australia; and. the species would seem to be 

 the same as that which I have referred to macrurus, p. 206, ante: the 

 general colour, however, would appear to be scarcely so dark as in the 

 Malacca specimens, and I do not understand the second white mark 

 represented upon the breast of the male. The two sexes are figured, 

 both having the white marks on the wings and tail, but diminished in 

 extent in the female : and looking to a series of specimens of the near- 

 ly allied C. albonotatus, it would seem that the females vary in this 

 respect, many having certainly more or less of this white, which con- 

 firms Captain Tickell's statement of the sexes of this bird resembling 

 each other. In the common small C. asiaticus of India, the male and 

 female appear always to resemble ; and I now suspect that this will 

 prove to be not unusually the case in C. albonotatus, C. macrurus, and 

 C. mahrattensis.f 



To the genus Collocalia, Mr. Gould erroneously refers two species 

 of true Swallow, allied in nidification as well as plumage to Hirundo 

 capensis and H. daurica (v. erythropygia) ; and a third Swallow is 

 figured by him as H. neoxena, which appears to me perfectly identical 

 with a specimen of H. pacifica, (v. domicola, Jerdon,) from the Neil- 

 gherries. A new Cypseline genus — Atticora — is founded on Hirundo 

 fasciata, Gm., and two or three other South American species, to which 

 is added one Australian representative as At. leucosternon.% 



* This group Ninox is not admitted by Mr. G. R. Gray, who refers as many as 

 forty-four species to Athene! 1 certainly consider the former to be a good division. 



fit may be here remarked, that Caprimulgus indicus is far from being so rare in 

 Lower Bengal as I formerly supposed ; inasmuch as specimens may be often procur- 

 ed in the Calcutta Botanic Garden. C. monticolus will also probably turn out to be 

 far from scarce when I come to discover its proper haunts, which I suspect are upon 

 open ground. The only two specimens of the latter which I have obtained were both 

 caught alive by bazar shikarrees. Among Sir A. Burnes's drawings is a figure of a 

 species, (from " Lakat,") nearly allied to.C. monticolus, but still more uniform in its 

 colouring which approaches to sandy, — this being a tolerably sure indication of the 

 prevalent hue of its haunts ; — but if correctly figured, (and it is stated to be "natural 

 size,") it would be a smaller bird than C. monticolus, having the wing but nine inches 

 and a quarter long. A skull and feet in Burnes's collection are, however, quite 

 undistinguishable from those of C. monticolus. — The Society has just received another 

 closely allied species from Java. 



X Mr. G. K. Gray refers Atticora to the Swallow group; but I have little doubt that 

 he is wrong. Not only is the whole appearance of Mr. Gould's figure of At. leucos- 



