Order CAPRIMULOIFORMES. 
No. 396. 
Family CAPRIMULGIDM. 
EUROSTOPODUS GUTTATUS. 
SPOTTED NIGHTJAR. 
(Plate 344.)* 
Caprimtilgus GUTTATUS Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lend.), Vol. XV., p. 192, 
1827 : Parramatta, New South Wales. 
Caprimulgus guUatus Vigors and Horsfield, Trans. Linn. Soc. (Lond.), Vol. XV., p. 192, 
1827. 
Eurostopodus'f guitatus Gould, Synops. Birds Austr., pt. rv., App. p. 1, 1838 (Apl.) ; id., 
Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.) 1837, p. 142, Dec., 1838 ; id., Birds Austr., pt. 9 (Vol. II., 
pi. 8), 1842 (1st Dec.) ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 98, 1865 ; Ramsay, 
Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 178, 1878 ; id.. Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 2, 1888 ; 
North, Austr. Mus. Cat., No. 12, p. 27, 1890 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. 
Birds, Vol. II., p. 636, 1901 ; Le Souef, Emu, Vol. II., p. 93, 1902 (N.T.) ; Bemey, 
ih., Vol. VI., p. 43, 1906 (N.Q.) ; Chandler, ib., Vol. XIII., p. 37, 1913 (Vic.) ; 
Barnard, ih., Vol. XIV., p. 43, 1914 (N.T.). 
Eurosiopus argus Hartert, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XVI., p. 608, 1892 : East Australia 
= Victoria (?) ; Hall, Key Birds Austr., p. 55, 1899; id., Emu, Vol. II., p. 50, 
1902 (N.W.A.) ; Carter, ib., Vol. III., p. 95, 1903 (N.W.A.) ; Hartert, Nov. Zool., 
Vol. XII., p. 217, 1905 (N.T.) ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., p. 55, 1908 ; 
North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., p. 333, 1909 ; Gibson, Emu, Vol. IX., 
p. 75, 1909 (S.W.A.); Crossmann, ib., p. 150, 1910 (N.W.A.); Whitlock, 
ib., p. 193, 1910 (W.A.); Howe, ib., p. 230 (Vic.); G. F. HiU, ^6., Vol. X., p. 272, 
1911 (N.W.A.) ; Stone, ib., Vol. XII., p. 117, 1912 (Vic.) ; G. P. Hill, ib., p. 266, 
1913 (N.T.). 
Eurostopodus argus argus Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 290, 1912 ; id.. List Birds 
Austr., p. 151, 1913. 
Eurostopodus argus harterti Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVIII., p. 291, 1912 ; Newery 
Station, Northern Territory ; id.. List Birds Austr., p. 151, 1913. 
Distribution. Australia ; not Tasmania. 
Adult female. General colour above silvery-grey, minutely freckled and broadly and 
narrowly streaked with dark brown, also blotched and freckled with buff — ^the 
dark pattern on the middle of the crown and nape broad, the feathers margined 
* The plate is lettered Eurostopodus argus. 
t Also spelt Eurostopus, 
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