PLATE XIX. 



GENUS EUROSTOPODUS. 



rf^WO species are all that are known of this genus, both of them inhabiting Australia. 



EUROSTOPODUS GUTTATUS. 



SPOTTED NIGHTJAR. 



THE Spotted Nightjar is distributed over the whole of the southern portion of Australia, though 

 it is not very plentiful anywhere. 



During the day it sleeps on the ground in a secluded part of the forest, and at night goes 

 forth in search of food. It feeds on the larger kinds of insects and locusts, very often swallowing 

 them whole. 



It flies with great swiftness, darting up or down in order to capture any insects which it 



may see. 



It does not construct any nest, but lays a single egg on the bare ground. The colour of 

 the egg is greenish-olive, spotted here and there with black. In length it is one inch and three- 

 eighths, and in breadth one inch. 



The sexes do not differ either in size or colouring. 



The head is brown, each feather spotted with brownish-black ; sides of head and heck, grey, 

 spotted with brown ; back, grey, freckled with brown : scapularies, light grey, freckled with brown, 

 and with a patch of black on each feather ; wing coverts, grey, freckled and spotted with brown ; 

 primaries and secondaries, brownish-black, having spots of buff on both webs, the primaries also having 

 a spot of white on the inner web ; middle tail-feather, light grey, outer feathers, brownish-grey, the 

 whole barred with dark brown ; on each side of the throat a patch of white ; under surface, buffy- 

 white, irregularly marked with dark brown; irides, light brown; bill, black; legs and feet, reddish - 

 brown. 



Habitats : New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and Western Australia. 



EUROSTOPODUS ALBOGULARIS. 



WHITE-THROA TED NIGHTJAR. 

 T 1 1 H E present species is found in the eastern portion of Australia, from about Brisbane southwards. 



It altogether resembles its congener in habits, and like it has great powers of vision and 

 flight, which enable it to see and capture insects in the dim twilight, which is its time for sallying forth. 



