Order CAPRIMULGIF0RME8. 
No. 397. 
Family CAPRIMULGIDM. 
EOSSORNIS MACRURUS. 
LARGE-TAILED NIGHTJAR. 
(Plate 345.)* 
Caprimijlgus MACRURUS Horsfield, Trans. linn. Soc. (Lend.), Vol. XIII., p. 142, 1821 ; 
Java. 
Caprimulgus macrurus yorki Mathews, Nov. Zool, Vol. XVIII., p. 291, 1912 ; Cape York, 
North Queensland. 
Caprimulgus macrurus Gould, Birds Austr., pt. 17 (Vol. II., pi. ix.), 1844 (1st Dec.) ; id., 
Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 100, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Bond.), 1875, 
pp. 113, 581 (Q.) ; id., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 178, 1878; id.. Tab. List 
Austr. Birds, p. 2, 1888 ; Hartert, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. XVI., p. 537, 1892 ; 
HaU, Key Birds Austr., p. 54, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, 
Vol. II., p. 534, 1901 ; Hartert, Nov. Zool., Vol. XII., p. 217, 1905 (N.T.) ; Mathews, 
Handl. Birds Austral., p. 56, 1908 ; Macgilhvray, Emu, Vol. X,, p. 217, 1910 (N.Q.) ; 
North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat., No. 1, Vol. II., p. 329, 1909 ; Broadbent, Emu, Vol. X., 
p. 234, 1910 (N.Q.) ; Barnard, ih., Vol. XL, p. 24, 1911 (N.Q.) ; Macgilhvray, ih., 
Vol. XIII., p. 161, 1914 (N.Q.) ; H. L. White, ih., Vol. XVI., p. 220, 1917 (N.T.). 
Caprimulgus macrurus yorki Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVTII., p. 291, 1912 ; Cape York, 
North Queensland ; id., List Birds Austr., p. 152, 1913 ; Oberholser, Proc. U.S. 
Nat. Mus., Vol. 48, pp. 591-2, 1915. 
Caprimulgus macrurus keatsi Mathews, Nov. Zool., Vol. XVTII., p. 291, 1912 ; Point 
Keats, Northern Territory ; id.. List Birds Austr., p. 152, 1913 ; Oberholser, 
Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 48, pp. 591-2, 1915. 
Distribution. Northern Territory ; North Queensland. 
Adult male. General colour of the upper-surface black, dark brown, and pale earth- 
brown varied by white tips or bars, buff bars, and isabelhne mottlings to the feathers. 
Crown of head and hind-neck pale earth-brown minutely vermiculated with whitish, 
the feathers on the central portion broadly marked with black, which forms a 
longitudinal line, some of the lateral feathers have very narrow shaft-lines ; mantle, 
back, upper tail-coverts, and middle tail-feathers dark brown or blackish with buff, 
whitish, or pale brown bars and mottlings to the feathers ; the outer tail-feathers 
marked only on the margins ; the outermost pair broadly tipped with wliite ; 
scapulars pale earth-brown finely vermiculated with whitish, lined with buff and 
broadly tipped or margined with black ; lesser upper wing-coverts blackish barred 
* The plate is lettered Caprimulgw macrurus. 
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