C'APRrMULGUS L EN T I G-JNOS US
1 ves.....Plate,
CAPRIMULGUS LENTIGINOSUS.—S mith.
Aves.—P late Cl. (F emale.)
C. superne nigro-brunneus, lineis maculisque lactifloribus, variegatis ; torque cervicale colons ejusdem;
remigibus primariis intemis, secondariisque rubro-auranteo-fasciatis; gutture inter mandibulre
extremitates posteriores macula alba instructo; pectore fusco, maculia lactifloribus variegato;
abdomiue pallide rubro-auranteo, brunneoque transverse tseniolato.
Longitudo e roBtri apice ad basin caudse 5 unc. 2 lin. ; caudse 5 unc. 4 lin.
CoLOCE.BThe ground colour of the upper parts of the head, neck, and
body liver-brown, freely speckled with small spots, waved lines, and irregular
blotches of pale bulf-orange. The latter most numerous on the shoulders and
neck anterior to the interscapulars, where they form a sort of demi-collar;
the variegations are most profuse on the neck, shoulders, and scapulars. On
the throat, between the hinder extremities of the dower jaw, a large white
blotch ; the. other parts of the neck, anteriorly, liver-brown, narrowly barred
with buff-orange. Breast dull liver-brown, freckled, and blotched: with buff-
orange ; belly and vent pale reddish orange, the former scantily banded
transversely with umber-brown. Ender tail coverts barred with umber-
brown. Primary and secondary quill feathers brownish red, the four outermost
of the former with a white spot on inner vane rather nearer to the tip
than quill; towards the point these quill feathers are irregularly banded or variegated
with pale buff-orange lines, and the inner primaries and the secondaries
are on the outer vanes deeply barred with a tint intermediate between tile-
red and buff-orange; tertiary quill feathers brownish red, profusely variegated
with oblique lines of buff-orange. Tail feathers umber-brown, barred irregularly
with pale buff-orange, and the four or six middle feathers between
these bars are profusely variegated with narrow, oblique, pale buff
orange lines. Eyes dark brown. Tarsi and toes light brownish red; claws
reddish brown.