CAPRIMULGUS RUFIGENA.—S mith.
A yes.—P late C. (M ale.)
C. superne pallide purpureo-griseus, lineis undatis gracilioribus, nigro-brunneis variegatis; tectricibus
alarum minoribus nigro-brunneis, late rufo-albo-marginatis; gutture, duobus maculis albis instructo •
genis et torque cervicale rubro-auranteis, nigro brunneoque-variegatis. Remigibus quatuor externis,
brunneo-rubris, fascia' alba transversa instructis; rectricibus duabus intermediis griseis, anguste
nigro-brunneo-fasciatis et inter fascias, lineis nigro brunneis longitudinalibus inaculatis.
Longitudo e rostri apice ad basin caudee 4 unc. 4 lin; caudas 5 unc.
C olour, &c.—The upper surface of the head, the back of the neck, the
interscapulars, the back, the upper tail coverts, and the scapular feathers
pearl-grey, faintly variegated with very slender transverse or oblique lines, and
strongly with broad longitudinal streaks, all of a liver-brown colour. The
streaks are most numerous along the mesial line of the head, on the back of the
neck, and the scapulars, and several of those on the latter are internally margined
with buff-orange, which offers a marked contrast to the elsewhere dark
hue of those feathers. The lesser wing coverts umber-brown, finely freckled
with reddish white, and irregularly but conspicuously tipped with buff-orange.
The four outermost primary quill feathers brownish red ; the first and second,
with a broad white bar across the inner, vane a little nearer to the point than
to the base of the feather, the third and fourth with the same kind of bar
extending across both vanes. The rest of the primaries, the secondaries, and
all the tertiaries, except the three innermost, brownish red, more or less completely
barred with rusty reddish orange; the three tertiaries liver-brown, in the
course of the shafts, and towards the edges pearl-grey, freckled with liver-
Drown. Tail feathers, with the exception of the two middle ones, dark
umber-brown, irregularly crossed with more or less complete narrow bars
composed of small reddish white spots, and the two outermost feathers of each
side broadly tipped with white; the two middle tail feathers pearl-grey, with
narrow angular umber-brown bars, and the intervals between them, which
are wide, are variegated with longitudinal or waved, narrow, umber-brown