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Birds of Celebes: Caprimulgidae. 
broAvn; scapulars and wing-coverts with more or less bright buff patches, the 
former mostly vcdvoty brownish black; first primary deep broAvn, a large spot on 
the inner web and a broad wliite patch across both webs of the next three pri- 
maries, often an indication of a white spot on the fifth quill; secondaries deep 
brown, with narrow interrupted rufous bars, the two outer pairs of rectrices 
largely tipped Avith white, these tips varying in extent, being generally about 2 inches 
(50 mm) in length; chin and sides of throat rufous brown, finely barred Avith 
blackish brown; throat with a A’ery large white spot, bordered at the loAver part 
with deep black; abdomen rufous buff, barred Avith broAvn. Total length about 
292 mm; Aving 180 — 198 (about 190 on an average); tail 142 — 160; tarsus 17.8, 
feathered in front for almost its whole length (Hartert a 14). Iris blackish broAvm; 
bill black; feet and claws reddish brown (Gould 3 ). 
Adult female. Differs from the adult male in liaAung the outer Aveb of the first primary 
spotted with rufous, in liaving pale rufous marks on the primaries instead of white 
ones, in the tqAS to the outer rectrices behig less in extent and tinged with buff or 
I'ufous, speckled Avith broAA'n on the tijA of the outer web (Hartert a 14). 
Young. The marldngs less developed, the young male has the wliite patches on the primaries 
and recb-ices tinged with rufous and less in extent. The nestling is covered Avitli 
huffy down (Hartert a 14). 
Distribution. Almost the Avliole of Australia (Ramsay S); New Britain; Aru; New Guinea; 
Waigiou; Halmahera; Obi; Ceram; Buru; Celebes — Gorontalo; Timorlaut; Timor; 
Lombok; JaAm; Borneo; PalaAvan; ? Philippines; Sumatra; Malacca (Salvad. a 6, 
a 10, Briiggem. a 5, Everett a 12, Hartert a 14, aid)', Saleyer and Djampea 
(Everett n 20); Sumbawa (Doherty a 20). 
2. Caprimulgus macrurus albonotatus (Tick.). 
c. Caprimulgus albonotatus (1) Tick., .LA S. B. 1842, XI, 580; (2) Jord., B. Ind. 1862, 
I, 194; (3J Hume, Str. E. 1875, HI, 45; (4) id., ib. 1878, VI, 58; (5) Hartert, 
Cat. B. Xyi, 1892, 540 (subsp.) partim; (6) Blanford, Fauna Br. Ind. B. IH, 1895, 
1SS, pt. 
d. Caprimulgus macrurus albonotatus (1) Hartert, Ibis 1892, 282; (2) id. Tiorreich, 1897, 1,54. 
Diagnosis. Differs from the typical macrurus in being altogether a larger bird (Aving 229 nun, 
against 197—203 in macrurus), both above and below altogether a lighter coloured 
and more huffy bird, with broader Avbite or buffy or creamy Avhite margins to the 
scapulars and wing feathers, and with the whole lower parts comparatively uniform; 
Aidiereas in macrurus the breast is much darker and contrasts strongly Avith the much 
paler abdomen (Hume c 4). 
Variation. Specimens from the plains of Xorth-Avestorn India are very light coloured; the 
marldngs paler brown (than in the typical macrurus), the scapulars less brilliantly 
marked, the dark spots on the croAvn less mnnerous, narroAver, and more confined to 
the middle of the croAAm; Avings very long; loAver parts very strongly tinged Avith pale 
sandy rufous. Wing 203—218 mm; tail 165—178 [as against 180—198 and 142—160 
respectively in the typical macrucus], (Hartert c 5). 
Distribution. India throughout the Himalayas at Ioav elevations, in the North-Avest Provinces, 
Bengal, Chutia Nagpur, and RaijDur, and in Burma (Blanford). 
3. Caprimulgus macrurus — albonotatus. 
e. Caprimulgus nipalensis [Hodgs., Icon. ined. in Mus. Brit.], (1) Hartert, Ibis 1892, 283. 
/: Caprimulgus macrurus (1) Hume, Str. E. 1878, VI, 58; (2) Oates, B. Brit. Burmah 1883, 
