SHORT-WINGED GOATSUCKER. 151 



L'Eugoulevent roux. Vieil. Ois. de I'Amer. Sept. 1. 5/. pi. 2, 

 Chuck-wills- wido-.v. Wils. Amcr. Orn. Q. 95. ;;/. 54. f. 2. 

 Short-winged Goatsucker. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. pi. 18. 



THIS is twelve inches in length : its beak is 

 yellowish, tipped with black : mouth strongly 

 bristled : cheeks and chin rust-coloured, varied 

 with black : over the eye a line of whitish spots : 

 head and back deep brown, powdered with cream- 

 colour and bright ferruginous, and marked with 

 long zigzag streaks of black ; scapulars spotted 

 with deep black and cream-colour, and varied 

 with whitish : nape of the neck with long fea- 

 thers, and streaked with yellowish brown: quills 

 barred with black and bright rust : tail round- 

 ed, one inch longer than the wings; the four 

 middle feathers powdered with ferruginous, and 

 elegantly marked with zigzag and herring bone 

 black figures : exterior edge of the outer feathers 

 barred like the wings ; their interior webs are 

 white two-thirds of their length, and marbled with 

 black and white at their bases : throat with a 

 whitish band : breast black, powdered with rust- 

 colour : legs feathered in front to the feet, which 

 are of a dirty flesh- colour : the inner edge of the 

 middle claw is greatly serrated : the female wants 

 the white on the outer tail-feathers, which are of 

 a brownish cast. 



This is a solitary species : it arrives in Georgia 

 in March, and in Virginia in April : it lays two 

 eggs in the woods, without any nest ; they are of 

 a dull olive-colour, sprinkled with darker specks, 

 are oval in shape, and about the size of those of a 



