164 POPETUE GOATSUCKER. 



THE Rufous Goatsucker is near eleven inches 

 in length : its beak is pale brown : irides yellow : 

 prevailing colour of the plumage rufous, varied 

 with different tints of black, and sprinkled with 

 white: the upper parts of the body with the shafts 

 of the feathers of the latter colour : quills barred 

 with rufous and black : throat and under parts of 

 the body transversely undulated with black, the 

 lines increasing in width towards the belly, the 

 upper parts of which incline to black, the lower 

 to rufous : tail barred with black : legs flesh- 

 colour. Inhabits Cayenne. 



POPETUE GOATSUCKER. 

 (Caprimulgus popetue.) 



CA. fusco-nigricans, albo rttfoque varius, subtus albidus Jasclis 



nigricantibus, alls nigris, macula alba, caudajbrficata. 

 Brown-black Goatsucker, varied with white and rufous; beneath 



whitish with dusky fasciae; wings black, with a white spot; tail 



forked. 



Caprimulgus popetue. Fieil.Ois. de VAmer. Sept. 1. 56. 

 Caprimulgus americanus. Wilson. Amer. Orn. 5. 65. 

 Whip poor Will. Edwards, pi. 63 : (with bristles added to the 



edges of the beak.) 



Long-winged Goatsucker. Pen. Arct. Zool. p. 434. 

 Night-Hawk. Wils. Amer. Orn. 5. 65. pi. 40. f. 1. male, f. 2. 



female. 

 L'Engoulevent popetue. Vieil. Ois.de I' Amer. Sept. l. 56.pl. 



24. 



IT is rather surprising that European naturalists 

 should generally have confounded this with the 



