700 Mr. W. L. Sclater on Birds collected 
894. Caprimulgus fervidus. 
Tv. Legogot, May (1) ; Woodbush, May (2) ; P. Coguno, 
June, Aug., Sept. (7) ; Beira, Dec., Jan. (3). 
This is a somewhat rare species in South Africa. The two 
sexes seem to be almost identical. The females have the 
white on the tail-feathers and on the primaries, generally 
characteristic marks of the males, but the spots are, perhaps, 
slightly smaller. 
[“ Dowe ” of the Ntebis. 
Not until I reached the Transvaal did I come across this 
species, and there I found it both in the Eastern and the 
North-Eastern localities visited, and again in the Inhambane, 
Beira, and Gorongoza districts of Portuguese East Africa, 
but it was not heard or seen near Tete. It was not common 
in any locality except at Coguno, where it was exceedingly 
plentiful. It appears about sundown, and sits both on the 
ground and in trees ; it catches its prey from a fixed perch, 
and does not, I believe, hawk after the manuer of C.fossei. 
It has a clear, loud, liquid call of several notes rapidly 
repeated, but different from that of C. natalens\s 3 and not 
easily described, and another single peculiar note which, I 
believe, is the call to another bird, as I always heard it w r hen 
two came together. The alarm-note is a single harsh cry, 
sometimes with a sharp snapping noise, probably made with 
the beak. This species, like most Nightjars, only utters its 
regular call or “ song 33 when sitting. It was very common 
all round my camp at Coguno, and sat regularly on the 
trees near by. I noticed that it called much more often on 
moonlight nights ; on dark nights it was seldom or never 
heard. The Ntebi name is derived from its single call-note. 
The irides are dark brown.] 
895. Caprimulgus pectoralis. 
CO. Durban Rd., Sept. (2); Port Nolloth, Aug. (2). 
One egg taken at Port Nolloth, Aug. 13. 
\_“ Nacht-uil 33 of the Cape Colonists. 
The Cape Peninsula and Namaqualand are the only 
localities where I have seen this Nightjar, and it appears to 
