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CAPRIJIUIiGIDJE. 
Hub. Gulf of Carpentaria, Capo York, Rockingham Bay, Port 
Denison, Wide Bay District, Richmond and Clarence Rivers 
Districts, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South 
Australia. ( Ramsay.) 
Order INSESSORES. 
Family CAPRIMULGIDiE. 
Genus rEGOTHELES, Vigors and Uvrsjicld. 
iEGOTHELES NOVyE-HOLLANDEE, Viyors and ITorsJield. 
The Owlet Nightjar. 
Gould, llandbk. Jiirds Aunt., Vol. i., sp. 38, p. 79. 
This species deposits its eggs, which are white and from three 
to four in number on the debris at the bottom of a hollow branch 
of a tree, usually a Eucalyptus. A sot of three taken at Cardington, 
in December, 1867, by Mr. John S. Ramsay, measure as follows 
length (A) Dio x 0'87 inch ; (B) IT x OSf) inch ; (C) 1 To x 087 
inch. The shell is thick and hard in texture. 
The breeding season commences in October and lasts during 
the three following months. 
Hub. Rockingham Bay, Wide Bay District, Dawson River, 
Richmond and Clarence Rivers Districts, New South Wales, 
Interior, Victoria and South Australia, Tasmania, West and 
South-West Australia. {Ramsay.) 
Genus PODAKGUS, Cuvier. 
PODARGUS STRIGOIDES, Latham. 
Tawny-shouldered Podargus. 
Gould, llandbk. Ihfs. Aust., Vol. i., sp. 40, p. 84. 
This bird is universally dispersed throughout New South Wales 
and Victoria ; it builds a Hat nest of sticks loosely placed together 
