SPOTTED NIGHTJAR. 
On 6th October, Mr. Ross flushed a pair that were lying on the ground close 
to a few dead sticks. The female was secured, and on dissection was found 
to contain an egg that would have been laid within a week. On the 3rd 
October, another bird was flushed from a thick patch of short mallee.” 
Mr. Tom Carter’s notes read : “ The Spotted Nightjar was fairly common 
on the ranges from Point Cloates to the North-West Cape, but this conclusion 
was formed more from hearing the birds while camping out at night than 
from seeing them, as in the daytime they sit closely on the ground under the 
shelter of a bush, and will not rise miless approached very closely. Then 
they do not fly far. They could be heard, and sometimes seen, as they flitted 
about my camp fires, and their peculiar cry was a puzzle to me for a long time, 
as I found it difficult to shoot one at night when they were on the wing, and 
I believe only once succeeded in doing so, and this was at Winning Pool, 
about sixty miles east of Point Cloates. In the drought of 1889-91 I was 
camped out near the North-West Cape for many months and they were in 
numbers about the camp fire. Mr. G. A. Keartland has well described their 
cry as ‘Caw-caw-caw gobble-gobble-gobble.’ The first part, shghtly crescendo, 
and the latter diminuendo. They were occasionally noted by me on the 
ground in scrub in the Gascoyne district, but they seem to like the vicinity 
of ranges and rough country best. They were never seen or heard by me in 
the south-west.” 
IMr. J. P. Rogers has written me: “At Marngle Creek only one was seen, 
and at Mungi one was heard at night close to my camp, but none were seen. 
This species is usually found in stony country in this district, and is often seen 
hawldng for insects in the twilight. I have always found it more numerous 
around the Grand Range than elsewhere in Kimberley.” 
Berney {Emu, Vol. VI., p. 43, 1906) recorded Eurostopus guttatus from 
the Richmond district, North Queensland, observing : “ This species is only 
an occasional visitor. I have seen it three years out of the last five, and my 
notes then are confined to the period August to January.” 
Bemey is a most accurate observer, so that it is possible that both species 
occur in North Queensland, all other records being allotted to the other species. 
When Hartert monographed this group in the sixteenth volume of 
the Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum, the names in common 
use for the two species were those put forward by Vigors and Horsfield 
and accepted by Gould. Hartert, however, placed C. guttatus as a synonym 
of C. albigularis, writing : “ This name has constantly been applied to 
the smaller species, but on examining the type in the British Museum, I 
find that it is a nestling of E. albigularis, and not of the smaller form. 
As the description of this bird is not sufficient to recognise the species. 
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