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by Mr. Claude Grant in South Africa. 
be confined more or less to the coast-belt. Only the pair 
secured were seen at Port Nolloth, and none were heard 
calling; but at the Cape it was plentiful, and could be heard 
and seen every night, being very partial to orchards and 
cultivated lands. It was found sitting on the posts of the 
fencing, whence it took short flights round the fields, often 
returning again to its perch. It has a charming note, I think 
higher in tone than either that of C. fossei or that of C. euro - 
paus, and another, somewhat guttural, which is probably the 
sexual call. It apparently breeds fairly early, as the pair 
shot at Port Nolloth were flushed from the nest, which was 
a mere hollow in the sand on an open stony hillside, and 
contained one egg just laid. On skinning the female I 
found another in the oviduct not quite hardened. 
The irides are dark brown.] 
396. Caprimulgus trimaculatus. 
Tv. Swali's Nek, July (1); Woodbush, June (1) ; 
Legogot, Apl., May (5). 
This is a rare species in South Africa. There are only 
three South-African examples in the British Museum—the 
type of C. lentiginosus A. Smith, from Namaqualand, one 
skin from the Cunene Biver, and one from Bustenberg. 
The present series is therefore a welcome addition. The 
female has the white spots on the three outer primaries as 
in the male, but no white on the tail. 
[Only in the Eastern and the North-Eastern Transvaal 
have I noted this distinct Nightjar. It was fairly plentiful 
at Legogot, but two specimens were seen at Woodbush and 
one was secured in the low veld. It appears about sun¬ 
down, and always sits in roads or tracks, never, I believe, 
on a stump or tree, and I have not flushed it in the daytime. 
Whether this bird is silent or not I do not know, but 
I have been unable to recognise its call. 
The irides are dark brown.] 
397. Caprimulgus fossii. 
Z. Umfolosi Station, July (2) ; Hluhluwe Stream, Aug. 
(1); Tv. Woodbush, Jan. (2); Pietersburg, Mch. (1) ; 
