CAROLINA GOATSUCKER. 149 



vous, mixed with rufous, in irregular strise, those 

 of the top of the head and hind part of the neck 

 longitudinal ; on the upper part of the back ob- 

 lique, and variegated with irregular shaped spots of 

 a greyish tint on the rest of the upper parts, of the 

 body : quills black ; some of them with a white 

 spot towards their tips : under parts of the body 

 similar in colour to the upper, but the strise are 

 placed transversely : from the gape, reaching be- 

 neath the throat, is a white beard : tail dusky, 

 rather longer than the wings. 



This species is said to repeat the word mont- 

 voy-au very clearly : it is a native of Guiana. 



CAROLINA GOATSUCKER. 

 (Caprimulgus carolinensis.) 



CA.griseo nigricanteque undulatus, subtus griseo-rujescens lineolis 



nigricantibus, rectricibus tribus exterioribus latere interiore 



albis. 

 Goatsucker waved with grey and dusky; beneath reddish grey 



with dusky lines; the three exterior tail-feathers white on the 



inner web. 

 Caprimulgus carolinensis. Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 1028. Briss. 2. 



475. 2. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 5S4. 4. 



Engoulevent de la Caroline. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 6. 532. 

 Carolina Goatsucker. Lath. Geii. Syn. 45Q2. 4. 



THIS species has received the name of rain bird 

 in America, from the circumstance of its only 

 making its appearance in the evening, or during 



