Vaurie's Nightjar

The Vaurienachtschwalbe ( Caprimulgus centralasicus ) is a species of bird in the family of nightjars. It is named after Charles Vaurie who has the kind described scientifically in 1960.

Description

The Vaurienachtschwalbe reaches a length of 19 centimeters. The top is beige - sand color with a brown waves and wisps drawing. A beard Streif like the nightjar is not available. The wings are beige - beige with brown shaft drawing and light beige swabs. The shoulders are yellow-brown with dark streaks means. The underside is light beige - brown banded. The lower wings are beige-colored without white wing-bars. The two outermost tail feathers have narrow light beige - white lace. The iris is dark brown. The beak is horn colored dark. Legs and feet are flesh-colored.

Status

The Vaurienachtschwalbe has been known only by a female immatures, in September 1929 in the Taklamakan in a circle Guma ( Pishan ) was collected in the southwestern Xinjiang in western China by Frank Ludlow and is preserved in the Natural History Museum. Some researchers consider the Vaurienachtschwalbe for a dubious taxon, especially on expeditions in the 1970s and 1990s, only copies of the Chinese - Nightjar C. europaeus subspecies plumipes were discovered in the region in question. Maybe it could act at the Vaurienachtschwalbe to an abnormal copy of the immatures Chinese nightjar or to an extinct species. A molecular analysis of the existing copy has not yet been performed. The region in the terra typica is now badly damaged by overgrazing.