CAPEIMULGUS. 
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evidently quite authentic, as the birds were flushed off them, and 
several specimens shot by myself at the time, The Gootchy eggs 
are smaller than the present specimen, but slightly larger than 
those of E. yu/tatus. The egg at present under consideration, in 
si/.e is almost as large as that ot PodaTtfiis h umsralis. An e 0 * 0 * 
from Gootchy is 1 'Oil x 1 '05 inch; colour light cream with black 
round dots. That received from Mr. A. Clarke, is of a rich deep 
cream-yellow, having on one side a cluster of round black spots, 
which touch one another here and there, and a few similar dots 
sprinkled over the remaining surface ; length 1-55 inches x Ida 
inches in breadth. In consequence of the great width of the egg 
it appears to be larger than it really is.” ( Ramsay, P.Z.S., ] 875, 
p. 581; and P.L.S., X.S. W., Vol. i., 2nd Series, p. 1 142.) 
Hab. Wide Bay District, Dawson River, Richmond and Clarence 
Rivers Districts, New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and 
South Australia. {Ramsay.) 
Genus CAPRIMULGUS, Liniurm. 
CAP RIM ULGUS MACRURUS, ITorxfeld. 
Large-tailed Nightjar. 
Gould, Handbk. Rds. A us/.., Vol. i., sp. 50, p. 100. 
“I am indebted to Inspector Robert Johnstone for a line pair 
of these eggs; they were found on the ground on the side of a 
ridge near the Herbert River, Queensland; and are of a light 
rich cream colour, fading to whitish after being emptied, clouded 
all over with fleecy markings of pale slaty lilac, which appear as if 
beneath the surface of the shell ; length 1-1 x "81 inch in breadth. 
(Ramsay, P.Z.R., 1875, p. 581.) 
Hah. Port Darwin and Port Essington, Gulf of Carpentaria, 
Cape York, Rockingham Bay, Port Denison, Wide Bay District, 
New South Wales, Interior, Victoria and South Australia, West 
and South-West Australia, South Coast New Guinea. (Ramsay.) 
