THE DAMARA COUNTRY IN S. W. AFRICA. 
8. Caprimulgus pectoralis, Vieill. ; Lovaill. Ois. Af. pi. 49; (C. 
rujigena, Smith, Zool. S. Af. pi. 100.) 
9. Caprimulgus lentiginosus, Smith, Zool. S. Af. pi. 101. 
10. Caprimulgus damarensis, Strickland. Size, small. Ground 
colour of crown and upper parts palo grey, minutely speckled with 
fuscous ; each feather on the crown has a conspicuous medial black 
streak, broad on tho front and occiput, narrower on the hind head ; 
cervical collar fulvous, each feather margined with black dots; 
feathers of back, rump, and upper tail-covers with a black longi- 
tudinal streak about 2 0 th of an inch broad on each ; extei nal row 
of scapulars with a broad pointed medial black streak, their inner 
margin fulvous, speckled with black, the outer, plain fulvous, con- 
trasting strongly with the black medial stripe ; middle and greater 
covers fuscous, with a large squarish or circular fulvous spot at 
the tip of the outer web, and some broken bars of fulvous near tho 
base of tho same web; primaries with three or four square fulvous 
spots on the basal two-thirds of their outer webs, separated by equal 
intervals of fuscous, on their inner webs are three or four larger 
fulvous spots united at the margins of the web ; terminal third ot 
the primaries fuscous, speckled with grey at the tips; secondaries 
regularly barred with four or five fulvous bars, divided by the black 
shaft, and separated by equal intervals of fuscous; rcctr.ccs pale 
grey, speckled and barred with fuscous ; the medial pair have about 
nine narrow fuscous bars; these become broader and more nume- 
rous externally, so that on the two outer pair they amount to four- 
teen or fifteen, and the ground colour on these outer remiges is 
obscure fulvous. Over tho eye is a pale superciliary streak ; the 
cheeks dark fulvous, speckled with fuscous, the ear-covers pa e 
fulvous.; chin and throat pale fulvous, obscurely barred with fu - 
ecus ; a nearly white spot on each side of the throat; upper breast 
grey speckled with fuscous, with a medial fuscous streak on each 
feather - the feathers of tho lower breast have a large subtnangular 
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fuscous burs, three •“ <“■* • “ 1 
lower tail-covers plain pale fulvous. 
ZtTLZth 9 5* beak to front, 3, to gape, 9; wmg, 6.4; me- 
Total length, 9.5, oea feathered for half its 
dial rectrices, 4.5, external, 4.4, taisus, 7, 
length; middle toe and claw, 9; outer and inne. ditto, a. 
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