LARGE-TAILED NIGHTJAR. 
“Differs from C. m. macrurus in its smaller size: wing 179 mm. (typical 
birds 190 mm.). 
North Queensland (Cape York). 
Caprimulgus 'tnacrurus keatsi. 
Differs from C. m. macrurus in its paler coloration as well as smaller 
size. 
■ Northern Territory (Port Keats).” 
These forms were accepted in my “ List of the Birds of Austraha,” published 
in 1913, but are here augmented. A few remarks are necessary, however, as 
recentfy Oberholser has given in the Proc. U.S. Nat. Mus., Vol. 48, pp. 587-99, 
pubhshed May 3, 1915, a “S 5 niopsis of the Races of the Long-tailed Goatsucker, 
Caprimulgus mxicrurus Horsfield.” His conclusions may be here digested : 
nine subspecies were recognised ; to quote the author’s words, “ not a large 
number, considering the great range of the species.” These were 
Caprimulgus macrurus macrurus (Horsfield). 
Java, Borneo, Labuan Island, Palawan 
and Calamiane^ Islands in the Pliihp- 
pines, etc., etc. 
Caprimulgus macrurus mesophanis (Oberholser). 
Molucca Islands. 
Caprimulgus macrurus yorki (Mathews). 
Cape York, Northern Australia. 
Caprimulgus macrurus keatsi (Mathews). 
Northern Territory of Austraha, New Guinea, 
New Britain Island, Aru Islands, and 
probably also the Timorlaut Islands. 
Caprimulgus macrurus anamesus (Oberholser). 
Singapore Island and Sumatra. 
Caprimulgus macrurus himaculatus (Peale). 
Malay Peninsula, north to Tenasserim, 
Burmah, Assam and Province of Yunnan, 
south-western China, and east to Sjiam, 
Cambodia and Cochin Chma. 
Caprimulgus macrurus alhonotatus (Tickell). 
North-eastern India. 
Caprimulgus macrurus nipalensis (Hartert). 
Nepal. 
Caprimulgus macrurus atripennis (Jerdon). 
Eastern Ghauts, Southern India. 
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