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Caprimulgus binotatus. 
Sharpe, Ibis, 1901, p. 612. 
No. 4107. (J. Bitye, R. Ja, February 1910. Length of 
wing 140 mm. 
This is the second example of this rare and peculiar 
Nightjar that I have obtained, the other having been killed 
at Efulen eight years before at the same time of year. No. 
4107 is smaller than the measurements given by Reichenow’s 
description, and there is a distinct diagonal buff band on 
the scapulary feathers : both these characters may be marks 
of the male sex, supposing the original description to have 
been made from a female. 
ScOTORNIS CLIMACURUS. 
Reiclienow, V. A. ii. p. 368. 
No. 3425. $ . Bitye, R. Ja, February 1909. 
Two other specimens were shot, one at Assobam in 
January, and a second at the edge of a clearing at Bitye on 
Christmas Day, but both were badly damaged by shot. Thus 
all were obtained in the principal dry season; and none 
were in breeding condition. Like the Pennant-winged 
Nightjars (see ‘ Ibis/ 1909, p. 26) these birds seem to wander 
into the forest in the dry season only. 
The one shot last Christmas rose in front of me as I 
was walking along the border of a field of ground-nuts, and 
settled on a small log not far off. There it went to sleep again, 
and remained till I returned with my little collecting-gun. 
No. 3425 was shot on the bare ground at dusk; it had been 
making short flights, as if catching beetles in the air and 
returning to the ground again. 
Macrodipteryx macrodipterus. 
Reich. Y. A. ii. p. 370. 
No. 3422. ? . Bitye, R. Ja, February 1909. Length of 
wing 152 mm. 
This specimen is somewhat small, and lacks the rusty neck¬ 
band, but seems to belong to the present species. It was 
apparently a straggler, and was shot in the driest time of the 
year, as were the specimens of the larger pennant-winged 
