_Caprimulgus jotaka_ Temminck and Schlegel, in Siebold's Fauna
Japonica, Aves, 1847, p. 37, pl. 12, 13. (Type locality, Japan.)
_Caprimulgus indicus jotaka_ Hand-list Japanese Birds, rev., 1932,
p. 179 (Palau); Hand-list Japanese Birds, 3d ed., 1942, p. 199
(Palau); Mayr, Birds Southwest Pacific, 1945, p. 302 (Palau).
_Geographic range._--Breeds in eastern Asia and Japan. Winters
south to tropics. In Micronesia: Palau Islands--exact locality
unknown.
_Remarks._--According to the committee who prepared the Hand-list of
Japanese Birds (Hachisuka _et al._, 1942:199), one female was obtained
by Oba in the Palaus in November, 1930. The skin was placed in the
Kuroda collection. Coultas obtained a male on December 9, 1931, in the
Palaus, which is in the American Museum of Natural History. The bird is
apparently an occasional migrant to western Micronesia.
=Caprimulgus indicus phalaena= Hartlaub and Finsch