SPOTTED NIGHTJAR. 
Hartert accepted as referable to this species “ Eichtel’s Goatsucker ” 
described by Latham {Gen. Hist. Birds, Vol. VIL, p. 345, 1823) as 
follows : “ Size of the European Species : Bill moderately large, dusky ; 
plumage in general dark greyish-brown, marked all over with wliite, 
circular, ringhke spots, of the size of peas ; on the quills about five or 
six on each side of the web ; legs weak. 
Inhabits New Holland ; communicated by M. de Eichtel, who described 
it to me from memory ; but in whose possession the specimen was, when 
he related the circumstance.” 
I can see no character in this description to allow the allotment of 
the name to this species. 
In my “ Reference List,” pubhshed in the Nov. Zool. (Vol. XVIII., 
Jan. 1912), I admitted two subspecies : 
Eurostopodus argus argus (Hartert). Victoria. 
Eurostopodus argus harterti. 
“ Differs from E. a. argus in being darker above and below. 
Northern Territory. 
Northern Territory, North-west Austraha, South-west Austraha.” 
I maintained these in my “ List,” the range of the former being given 
as “ Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria.” 
Although I have specimens from Victoria, I note that none 
were catalogued by Hartert at the time he proposed the name, his 
description being based on all the series. His name was taken from a 
nomen nudum given to an Aru Island specimen, and he had no Aru 
Island specimens before him. I therefore select the Specimen “ e Ad. sk. 
S. Austraha = New South Wales. Capt. Sturt [C] ” as the tjrpe bird of 
Eurostopus argus Hartert. 
The names of the subspecies will now read : 
Eurostopodus guttatus guttatus (Vigors and Horsfield). 
Type locahty. New South Wales. 
Of this E. argus Hartert becomes a synonym and the range would 
be Northern Territory (Eastern), Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria. 
The “ S. Austraha ” of Captain Sturt was the interior of New South Wales, 
though very probably this species does occur in South Austraha. 
Eurostopodus guttatus harterti (Mathews). Northern Territory. 
The range at present is Northern Territory (Western) and Western 
Austraha. 
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