CANTS, CAPRIMULGUS, 165 



vustralis, (australis,)tail bushy, hanging down, tip- 

 ped with white ; ears short, erect, pointed, 

 See MS. P. 



8 5. CANTHARIS. Spec. 100.. 



Ihida, body entirely testaceous. 

 See MS. P. 



1 7. CAPRA. Spec. 3, 



Qegagrus, (goat,) horns keeled, arched backward? 

 throat bearded. Variety, domestica, horn with 

 an outward curvature at the end. V. angora, 

 hair long, soft, silky. V. syriaca,. horns reclin- 

 ed, ears pendulous ; chin bearded. V. afrieana, 

 horns short, depressed, reclining on the skull, 

 V. whidawia, horns erect, turns forward at the 

 ends. V. capricorna, horns short, turned for- 

 ward at the tips, annulate at the sides. 

 caucasica, (Caucasian goat,) horns turned back- 

 ward and outward, verging inwards at the tips ? 

 slightly triangular, knotty behind. 

 See MS. P. 



2 2. CAPRIMULGUS. Spec. 19. 



$uropoeus 9 (night-hawk, goat-sucker,) black, varied 

 with cinereous, brown, ferruginous and white j 

 beneath reddish-white with brown bauds. Ten 

 inches long. 



virginianuS) (whip-poor-will,) brown, transversely 

 varied with greyish brown and somewhat cine- 

 reous ; beneath reddish white, transversely 

 streaked ; chin with a triangular white spot ; 

 area of the eyes and neck above spotted with 



\ orange. 8 inches long. Its night song is monoto- 

 nous, but very agreeable to those whose child* 

 hood has been spent among them, 



Sec MS. P. 



