Large-tailed Nightjar © singaporebirds.com

© 2004 Birdpedia (Last update: 08/11/2005)		Tropical northern Australia, west to about Point Keats and south along the Queensland coast to about Maryborough.

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Forms superspecies with Jerdon's Nightjar (Caprimulgus atripennis), Philippine Nightjar (Caprimulgus manillensis) and Sulawesi Nightjar (Caprimulgus celebensis). All four were formerly considered conspecific.

Subspecies schlegelii includes possible subspecies: schillmolleri (northern Moluccas and western Papuan Is); obiensis (north-central Moluccas); mesophanis (southern Moluccas); oberholseri (western Lesser Sundas); kuehni (Kai and Tanimbar); yorki (Bismarck Archipelago to northern Australia); and meeki (Louisiade Archipelago). In past, birds of south-eastern Asia occasionally separated as subspecies ambiguus, those of Hainan as subspecies hainanus.

The following 7 subspecies are recognised:

• macrurus Horsfield, 1821   -  Java and Bali.
• schlegelii Meyer, AB, 1874   -  Northern and north-eastern Australia, New Guinea and surrounding islands, New Britain, Aru Island, Moluccas, Tanimbar and Lesser Sunda islands, and islands in Flores Sea.
• johnsoni Deignan, 1955   -  Palawan and probably the Calamian Group.
• salvadorii Sharpe, 1875   -  Western, northern and south-eastern Borneo.
• bimaculatus Peale, 1849   -  Sumatra, Malay Peninsula, Indochina, Thailand, southern China, Burma and north-western India.
• albonotatus Tickell, 1833   -  North-eastern Pakistan, northern India, southern Nepal, Bhutan and Bagladesh.
• andamanicus Hume, 1873   -  Andaman Islands. Considered by some authors to be a distinct species, Andaman Nightjar (Caprimulgus andamanicus).

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