1,50 SHORT-WINGED GOATSUCKER. 



rainy weather : it is the size of the common Goat- 

 sucker : length rather more than eleven inches : 

 beak dusky, the upper mandible armed with bris- 

 tles : the upper parts of the plumage with alter- 

 nate zigzag lines of dusky and grey : wings spot- 

 ted, and varied with longitudinal yellowish and 

 dusky streaks : quills barred with dusky and grey, 

 and with the outer webs spotted with yellow ; the 

 three first with a large white spot on the inner 

 web: the sides of the head, and all the under parts 

 of the body, reddish grey, marked with longitu- 

 dinal dusky lines : from the gape along the jaw, 

 on each side, a white stripe, beneath which are a 

 few yellowish spots : crown of the head with a 

 few grey dashes: tail grey, crossed with dusky 

 bands and lines : legs brown : claws black. Inha- 

 bits Virginia and Carolina: lays its eggs, which 

 are similar to those of the Lapwing, on the bare 

 ground. 



SHORT-WINGED GOATSUCKER. 

 (Caprimulgus brachypterus.) 



CA. griseo nigricanteque undulatus, sultus griseo-ntfescensjasciis 

 saturatioribus, gula albida, alls mfo nigroque variegatis, rec- 

 tricibus nigrojctsciatis. 



Goatsucker waved with grey and blackish; beneath reddish 

 grey, with dark fascia; throat whitish ; wings variegated with 

 red and black, and the tail-feathers barred with black. 



Caprimulgus rufus. Vieil. Ois. de I" Amer. Sept. 1. 57. 



Caprimulgus carolinensis. Wils. Amer. Orn, 6- 95. 



