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the female is sitting, she will suffer a stranger to approach within a foot or two before 

 she attempts to stir, and then she flutters and limps away in a manner so much 

 resembling a wounded bird, as to deceive almost every one into this idea, and by thus 

 drawing him into pursuit, she. effects the safety of her nest, This " pious fraud," a% 

 Thomson designates it, is only continued tiU she has enticed the intruder some distance 

 away, when she mounts and sweeps out of sight. 



The Leona goatsucker is remarkable for a long single feather issuing from the wing, 

 the shaft being without web till near the end, whei-e the web is broad. This feather is 

 much longer than the bird itself. The species, as to colour, is assimulated to the 

 common goatsucker. 



The cayenne, or white-necked goatsucker of Latham, is said to be less noctui-ual in its 

 habits than the other species ; it is also more sociable, frequenting the vicinity of high- 

 ways, nor does it move imtil approached very closely, and then only to a short distance. 

 It is said to utter two sorts of cry ; one like that of the toad, and another which has been 

 compared to the barking of a dog ; while uttering the former it is said to shake the 



