. A general history of birds . ED GOATSUCKER. LENGTH about ten inches. Bill black, rather stout, and curvedat the point; irides reddish; head, neck, back, and wings, duskyblack, marked with thick-set, whitish specks; beneath from thebreast dusky white; inner wing coverts the same, mottled with duskyspots; edges of the quills pale, nearly white; tail cuneiform, the twomiddle feathers three inches and a half long, the outer ones two andthree quarters ; beneath pale brown, crossed with about six duskybars; legs yellow ; the quills reach about one-third on the tail; atthe base of the bill several
. A general history of birds . ED GOATSUCKER. LENGTH about ten inches. Bill black, rather stout, and curvedat the point; irides reddish; head, neck, back, and wings, duskyblack, marked with thick-set, whitish specks; beneath from thebreast dusky white; inner wing coverts the same, mottled with duskyspots; edges of the quills pale, nearly white; tail cuneiform, the twomiddle feathers three inches and a half long, the outer ones two andthree quarters ; beneath pale brown, crossed with about six duskybars; legs yellow ; the quills reach about one-third on the tail; atthe base of the bill several strong, erect bristles, barbed on the sides. Inhabits New-Holland.—Among the drawings of Mr. seems allied to the last. 10— BANDED GOATSUCKER—Pl. cxv. Caprimulgus vittatus, Ind. Orn. Sup. p. lviii. Banded Goatsucker, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 262. pl. 136. Shaws Zool. x. 152. pl. 17. SIZE uncertain ; supposed to be ten or eleven inches long. Billblack, not very large, and bent at the end ; the gape extending s20<z/idecLs C/oa/o//t/< /■;■ L/0< GOATSUCKER. 343 beneath the eyes, as in many of the Genus; irides yellow; at thebase of the bill a few trifling bristles; the head is full of feathers,of a dirty flesh-colour, the rest of the neck and under parts of thebody much the same, with a tinge of ferruginous; under the eye,on the sides of the neck, and beneath the wings, crossed withnumerous broken lines and markings; the crown of the head andnape are black, curving forwards on each side over the eye; acrossthe back part of the neck a broad band of black, coming forwardson each side, about the middle, where it divides into two parts ; theback and wings are dusky blue, powdered with black ; quills dusky,edged and spotted with dusky rust-colour ; tail a trifle forked, dusky,marked with dull, pale, ferruginous spots on both webs of thefeathers, and crossed with ten or eleven obsolete bars of a darker ordusky colour; legs reddish flesh-colour. Inhabits
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