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the white spots on the inner webs of the primaries are small, but clearly 
defined”. 
A second specimen was killed on Ijembeh Island in March, 1895, and sent 
to the Dresden Museum; we give a figure of it. We find Mr. W. R. Ogilvie 
Grant’s statement as to its distinction from C. manilensis couched in too 
energetic language; instead of — as his words might lead the reader to suppose 
— belonging almost to two different genera, the two forms seem to us to be 
so closely allied as almost to endanger the specific distinction of C. celehemis, 
and to awmke a doubt as to whether it may not ultimately have to be reduced 
to the rank of a subspecies. 
101. OAPRIMULGUS AFPINIS Horsf. 
Allied Nightjar. 
Caprimulgus afiinis (1) Horsf., Tr. L. 8. XIH, 1821, 142; (2) Sclat., P. Z. 8. 1863, 212; 
(3) Walden, Tr. Z. S. 1872, VHI, 114; (4) Salvad., Oat. IJcc. Borneo 1874, 115; 
(5) Tweedd., P. Z. 8. 1877, 691; (G) Vordermaii, Nat. Tdsclir. Ned. Ind. 1883, 
XLH, 54; (7) Guillem., P. Z. 8. 1885, 504; (8) Tristr., Cat. Coll. B. 1889, 112; 
(9) Everett, J. Str. Br. B. A. 8. 1889, 153; (10) Vorderman, Notes Leyden Mus. 
1891, 25; (11) id., N. T. Ned. Ind. 1891, L, 448; (12) Hartert, Ibis 1892, 280; (13) 
id.. Cat. B. XVI, 1892, 549; (14) Biittik., Zool. Erg. We1)er’s Beise Ost-Lid. 
1893, in, 292; (15) Vorderm., N. T. Ned. Ind. 1895, LIV, 336; (16) Hart., Nov. 
Zool. 1896, 158, 549, 570, 595; (17) id., ib. 1897, 163; (18) id., Tierr. 1897, I, 50. 
a. Engoulevent des Roseaux (1) Hombr. & Jacq., Voy. Pole Slid 1846, pi. 21, fig. 2. 
h. Caprimulgus aruudinaceus (1) Bp., Consp. 1850, I, 60; (2) Jacq. & Pucker., Voy. Pole 
Sud, Texte 1853, 93; (3) Salvad., Oat. IJcc. Borneo 1874, 116. 
c. Caprimulgus faberi (1) Meyer, Isis, Dresden 1884, 20 (fide Hartert). 
For further synonymy and references see Hartert 13. 
Descriptions. Hombron & Jacquinot a 7; Walden 5; Vorderman 6; Hartert J5; 
Meyer c 1. 
Adult [male]. Ground-colour above, including upper surface of tail, broccoli-brown, thickly 
vermiculated, sprinkled, and spotted with sepia, clove-brown, and black, the crown, 
nape and mantle being most strongly marked — not streaked — with black, the 
scapulars marked with broken spots of light cinnamon; first four primaries blacldsh 
brown, outer webs paler, across their middle length a broad white band, only seen 
on the inner web of the first quill, on both webs of the other three; remaining 
quills (except the innermost ones wliich share the colour of the back) and greater 
wing-coverts broivnish black barred with tawny- cinnamon, the bars being some- 
what broken up with black; outermosttail-feather white, base of inner web barred 
with black and pale tawny-cinnamon; the next, white, mottled with bars of black 
and light tawny-cinnamon towards its base, most extensively on the inner web; general 
colour of under surface pale cinnamon, closely sprinkled and barred with broken 
markings of dark sepia on throat and breast, and rather regularly marked with 
narrow bars of sepia on the remaining under parts; under tail-coverts uniform 
cinnamon-wliitish; on each side of throat a white patch (Java, Nr. 8898). 
Adult female. Differs from the male in having no white whatever on the tail, the rectrices 
being banded with pale rufous grey and dark brown, paler on the tips (Hartert 13). 
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