286 CAPRIMULGIDJJ. 



feathers on each side have broad ends of pure white ; all 

 the under surface of the bird, from the chin to the under 

 tail-coverts, is of a pale yellow brown, with numerous 

 transverse bars of darker brown ; both sexes with a few 

 white feathers below the angle of the gape on each side ; 

 the legs, toes, and claws, orange brown; the middle toe 

 long, and furnished with a comb -like apparatus of seven or 

 eight small teeth on the inner edge of the thin and dilated 

 claw. 



The whole length of the bird is ten inches and a half. 

 From the carpal joint to the end of the wing, seven inches 

 and three-eighths ; the first feather shorter than the third, 

 the second feather a little longer than the third, and the 

 longest in the wing. 



The plumage of the male is more ferruginous than that 

 of the female, whose plumage is darker than that of the 

 males, and she has no white spots on the feathers of the 

 wings or of the tail. 



The young in their first plumage are like the parents, 

 but the birds of the year before they leave this country are 

 distinguished by their smaller size and shorter tail. 



