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GO A T-S U C KER. Class 11. 



xxvir. 



GOAT- 

 SUCKER. 



BILL very fhort, bent at the end, bridles round 



the bafe. 

 NOSTRILS tubular, very prominent. 

 TAIL corififting often feathers, not forked. 



172. Noc- 

 turnal. 



L' Eflraye ou Frefaye. Belon 



anj, 343. ^ 



Caprimulgus, Geiflmdicher. 



Gefner a'v, 241. 

 Cakobotto. Aldr. a^. I. 288. 

 Fern Owl, Goatfucker, Goat 



Owl. Wil. orn. 107. Alfo, 

 Churn Owl. Raii Jyn, av, 



26. Cat. Carolin. I. 8. 

 Dorhawk, accipiter Cantha- 



rophagus, Charlton ex. 79. 

 Le Tette Chevre ou Cra- 



paud volant. Erijfon au. 



II. 470. Tab, 44. 



Covaterra. Zinanniy 94. ScO' 



poll. No. 254. 

 Caprimulgus europeus. Lin, 



fyji. 346. 

 Natfkrafa, Natflcarra, Quall- 



knarren. Faun. Suec. fp, 



274. 

 Hirundo cauda asquabili. H. 



caprimulga. Klein au. 81. 

 Nat-Ravn, Nat-Skade, M- 



ten-bakke. Brun. 293. 

 Mucken Ilecker, Nachtrabb. 



Kram. 38J. 

 Br. Zool. 97. Tab. R. R. i. 



Jy^LEIN hath placed this bird in the fwallow 

 •^ tribe, and ftyies it a fwallow with an undi- 

 vided tail. It has mod of the charadlers of that 

 genus ; a very fmall bill, wide mouth, fmall legs. 

 It is alfo a bird of paflage ; agrees in food with 

 this genus, and the manner of taking it : differs in 

 the time of preying, flying only by night, fo with 

 fome juftice may be called a no£furnal fwallow. 

 It feeds on moths, knats, dorrs or chaffers ; from 

 which Charlton calls it a Dorr-hawk^ its food being 

 entirely that fpecies of beetle during the month of 



