CAPRIMULGUS EUROP^US.-Auct. 
Aves. — Plate CII. (Female.) 
C. pallide griseus, lineis, nigro-brunneis, transvorsis, longitudinalibusque instructus ; tectricibus alarum 
minoribus maculis subalbis notatis lineam obliquam formantibus; remigibus brunneo-rubris, aurantio- 
rubro-fasciatis ; gutture, antice, fascia transversa alba, instructs. ; abdomiue subrufo lineis brunneis 
transversis yariegato. 
Longitudo e rostri apice ad basin caudee 5 unc. 9 lin. ; caudse 5 unc. 
Colour. — The ground colour of the upper surface of the head, the hinder 
surface of the neck, the interscapulars, the back, the tail coverts and the sca- 
pulary feathers pearl-grey, variegated with longitudinal stripes, and fine, 
transverse, waved lines of liver-brown, the stripes along the centre of the 
head broadest and almost contiguous. The scapulars adjoining the wings 
are marked with several, short, broad, oblique liver-brown bars and narrow 
cream-yellow lines, and the inner ones with broad longitudinal liver-brown 
stripes. Ear coverts, feathers immediately behind them and those below 
the lower eyelid, reddish-orange, freely freckled with liver-brown, and below 
the last-mentioned feathers there is a distinct white stripe, which commences 
at the angle of the mouth and terminates on the side of the neck ; below this 
stripe the feathers are rusty-white, closely barred with narrow liver-brown 
lines ; throat superiorly crossed by a broad white band, many of the feathers 
barred with umber-brown ; behind this band the front and sides of the neck 
are rusty white, barred with liver-brown ; lesser wing coverts umber-brown, 
those nearest the bend of the wing finely barred with reddish orange, those 
towards the quill feathers variegated with reddish orange and cream-yellow 
spots, in addition to the transverse bars. The cream-yellow spots are so 
arranged as to form a sort of oblique spotted band across the wing. Primary 
and secondary quill coverts umber-brown, narrowly barred and tipped with 
cream-yellow ; primary quill feathers brownish red, barred with light reddish 
orange, the bars more or less speckled with umber-brown stripes or spots ; 
secondary and tertiary quill feathers umber-brown, the outer vanes freely 
