156 BOMBAY GOATSUCKER. 



triangular white mark, each feather of which is 

 fringed with dusky : legs brown : middle toe 

 very long, and greatly serrated. Supposed to 

 come from Cayenne." 



BOMBAY GOATSUCKER. 



(Caprimulgus Asiaticus.) 



CA. cinerascens, nigro Jerrugineoque nebulosus, pectore fcsciis 



cinereis, maxillari maculaque gulce pallidis. 

 Ash-coloured Goatsucker, clouded with black and ferruginous ; 



breast with an ash-coloured band ; with the throat and fascia 



on each side of the under jaw white. 

 Caprimulgus Asiaticus. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 588. 16. 

 Bombay Goatsucker. Lath. Syn. Sup. 195. 16*. 



DESCRIBED by Dr. Latham from a specimen 

 belonging to Sir Joseph Banks, as the <c size of the 

 Virginia Goatsucker : length eight inches and a 

 half: beak dusky : general colour of the plumage 

 not unlike that of the Siberian Owl, being a beau- 

 tiful mixture of pale ash-colour mottled with black 

 and ferruginous : the top of the head is pale ash- 

 colour, mottled with dusky down the middle of 

 the crown : on each side of the under jaw is a 

 pale streak, and on the throat a whitish spot : the 

 breast crossed with numerous cinereous bars : be- 

 tween the legs pale rufous : the quills are dusky, 

 barred with rufous ; the first the shortest ; four of 

 the greater quills have a spot of white on the inner 



