. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . Fig. 273. 633 CAPRIMULGUS EUROP^US. TJIE EUROPEANGOATSUCKER, OR NIGHTJAR. FERN OWL. CHURN OWL. JAR OWL. DOR HAWK. NIGHT Fig. 274. Caprimulgus europseus. Liun. Syst. Nat. I. 346. Caprimulgus europseus. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 584. Goatsucker. iMont, Orn. Diet. LEngoulevent ordinaire. Caprimulgus europseus. Temin. Man. dOrn. I. 436
. A history of British birds, indigenous and migratory: including their organization, habits, and relations; remarks on classification and nomenclature; an account of the principal organs of birds, and observations relative to practical ornithology .. . Fig. 273. 633 CAPRIMULGUS EUROP^US. TJIE EUROPEANGOATSUCKER, OR NIGHTJAR. FERN OWL. CHURN OWL. JAR OWL. DOR HAWK. NIGHT Fig. 274. Caprimulgus europseus. Liun. Syst. Nat. I. 346. Caprimulgus europseus. Lath. Ind. Orn. II. 584. Goatsucker. iMont, Orn. Diet. LEngoulevent ordinaire. Caprimulgus europseus. Temin. Man. dOrn. I. Goatsucker. Caprimulgus europseus. Selb. Europseus. European Goatsucker. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 160. Upper parts grey, minutely dotted and undulated with dusky,and rariegated with yelloicish-red, the head and hack xcith longi-tudinal black streaks; loicer parts transversely U7idulated withlight-red and dusky. In the male, the outer three quills have alarge ichite spot on the inner web, and the two lateral tail-feathersare largely tipped xcith ichite. The young in their first plumageare similar to the female, but someichat darker. Male.—The general characters of the Goatsuckers given inthe preceding pages, apply in all respects to the present species, 634 CAPRIMULGUS EUROPiEUS. of which it is therefore needless to present more than thosewhich are more r
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