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CAPRIMULGID.^. 



breast, and belly, rusty-dun colour, barred with nar- 

 row, transverse, dusky black lines : vent pale dun : 

 on the throat a large patch of white : the lesser wing- 

 coverts rufous mottled with black ; below them a trans- 

 verse, irregular, white band : greater coverts dusky- 

 brown, waved with paler rufous : scapulars chocolate- 

 brown, with clay-colour on the inner webs, forming 

 stripes : the quills deep black-brown ; the first and 

 second marked with an oval white spot on the inner 

 web, about the middle ; the next three with a broad 

 transverse stripe about the same place ; the rest deep 

 brown, barred with rufous : second quills barred ru- 

 fous on the inner web, and the first six white at the 

 tips : the tail is singularly cuneiform, the outer fea- 

 thers four inches long, the next five inches and a 

 quarter, increasing to the two middle, which are 

 greatly disproportioned to the other, being nine inches 

 long, and exceed the adjoining by four inches and a 

 half ; these are mottled, and a little blotched ; the 

 others much the same, but crossed with eight or ten 

 blackish marks, resembling bars : the outer one wholly 

 white on the outer web, and the end equally so for 

 three quarters of an inch ; the next ashy- white at the 

 end : the legs short, yellowish-dun colour, covered 

 half way by the feathers of the thighs : claws horn- 

 colour, the middle toe very long, and its claw greatly 

 pectinated." — Latham. 



Sp. 23. Ca? longipennis. Cuvier. 



Ca. macrodipterus. Steph. v. x. p, 169. — Africa. 



