Order CAPRIMULGIFOBMES. 
No. 395. 
Family CAPRIMULGIDJE. 
EUROSTOPODUS MYSTACALIS. 
WHITE-THROATED NIGHTJAR. 
(Plate 343.) 
Caprevtulgits MYSTACALIS Temminck et Laugier, Planch. Color. d’Ois, 69' liTr., Vol. IV., 
pi. 410 (Oct.) 1826 : New South Wales. 
Gaprimulgus mystacalis Temminck et Laugier, Planch. Color. d’Ois, Vol. IV., pi. 410 
(liv. 69), 1826. 
Gaprimulgus alhogularis Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 194, 
1827 : New South Wales. 
Eurostopodus* alhigularis Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. iv., p. 1, Apl., 1838; id., Proc. 
Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1837, p. 142, Dec., 1838 ; id., Birds Austr.' pt. 9 (Vol. II., pi. 7), 
1842 (1st Dec.) ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 96, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. 
Zool. Soc, (Lond.), 1875, p. 113 ; id., ib., p. 581 (N.Q.) ; id., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., 
Vol. n., p. 178, 1878 ; id.. Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 2, 1888 ; North, Austr. Mus. 
Cat,, No. 12, p, 28, 1890 ; Hartert, Cat. Birds Brit, Mus., Vol. XVT., p, 607, 1892 ; 
Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 55, 1899; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, 
Vol. II., p. 535, 1901 ; Batey, Emu, Vol. VII., p. 4, 1907 (Vic.) ; Mathews, Handl. 
Birds Austral., p. 55, 1908 ; North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. III., p. 330, 
1909 ; Broadbent, Emu, Vol. X., p. 234, 1910 (N.Q.) ; Wilson, ib., Vol. XII., p. 32, 1912 
(Vic.) ; Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 290, 1912 ; MacgiUivray, Emu, Vol. XIII., 
p. 161, 1914 (N.Q.) ; Campbell and Barnard, ib., Vol. XVII., p. 17, 1917 (N.Q.). 
Gapi'imulgus albimaculatus “ Cuv.” Bonaparte, Consp. Gen. Av., Vol. I., p. 62, 1850 : 
nom. nud. 
Eurostopodus mystacalis Mathews, List Birds Austr., p. 151, 1913. 
Eurostopodus mystacalis victorice Mathews, Austral Av. Rec., Vol. III., p. 58, 1916 : 
Victoria. 
Distribution. Queensland ; New South Wales ; Victoria ; South Austraha. \ 
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Adult male. General colour above black or dark brown mottled and freckled with grey 
or whitish on the head, back, wings, and tail spotted and irregularly marked with 
buff on the wings, scapulars, sides of face and chin ; the freckhngs on the head 
and hind-neck very fine, with broad black longitudinal fines, upper back similar 
but rather coarser, the grey marking on the lower back almost obsolete ; lesser 
upper wing-coverts and bastard-wing black with small buff spots and circles and 
grey mottfings and irregular buff markings on the median series ; scapulars 
* Also spelt Eurosto'pus. 
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