GREAT GOATSUCKER. 



(Caprimulgus grandis.) 



CA. nigricunte albojlavescenteque variegatus subtus ulbo nigroque 

 varius, area cculorumjlavescente, pedibus albis. 



Goatsucker above variegated with dusky, white, and yellow; 

 beneath with black and white; space round the eyes yel- 

 lowish ; feet white. 



Caprimulgus grandis. GrneL Sijst. Nat. 1. 102Q. Lath. Ind. 

 Orn. 2. 583. 1. 



Caprimulgus brasiliensis major naevius. Briss. 2. 4-85. 70. 7. 



Le grand Tbijau. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 6. 541. 



Le grand Crapaud volant de Cayenne. Buff. PI. Enl. 325. 



Grand Goatsucker. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 5gO. 1. 



THERE was a magnificent specimen of this bird 

 in the late Leverian museum, which came from 

 Cayenne : it is described as the size of a small 

 Buzzard, its length being nearly two feet : beak 

 covered with hairs to the tip : gape about three 

 inches wide : upper parts of the plumage cream- 

 colour, dotted with brown ; and the shafts of the 

 feathers the same : inner parts of the scapulars 

 whitish: wings very long, reaching almost to the 

 end of the tail, which is nearly half the length of 

 the bird, and rounded at the end: quills deep 

 brown, banded with white on each web, and 

 with their shafts black : under parts of the body 

 cream-colour ; the breast sometimes brownish : 

 tail brown, with whitish bars: legs brown, covered 

 with feathers to the toes : middle claw not ser- 



