436 LONG -WINGED GOATSUCKER. 



" melancholy if one lights on their houfe or near their door, and fe'.s 

 " up its cry (as they will fometimes upon the very threfhold) ; for 

 *■-' they verily believe one of the fannily will die very foon after *." 



337. Long- Whip poor Will, or lefler Goatfucker, £</w. 63^ -- C«/c/25y, App. 16.—. 



Latham,-\u 595. 

 Caprimulgus minor Americanus, Lin. Syft. 346. — Lev. Mus. — Bl. Mus. 



r^ With the head and body dufky, mottled with white and pale 

 ruft-color : primaries black, marked near the middle with a 

 white bar: under the throat is a white crefcent, with the ends pointing 

 upwards : breaft barred with dirty white and dufky : .tail black, 

 marked regularly on each web with fpots, mottled with black and 

 white : niear the ends of each feather is a large white fpot, the ends 

 quite black : wings, when clofed, extend beyond the end of the t-ail. 

 Length nine inches and a half : Extent about twenty-three. 

 Place. Inhabits the fame provinces with the former, and feems to have 



the fame manners and notes j for, according to Dodtor Garden, each 

 are known in different places, by the name o^ Whip poor Will. \t is 

 found as far north as Henly Houfe, a fertlement for about a hundred 

 miles up Albany river in Hudfon's Bay, where it is called xhc* MuJ^ueta 

 Hawk. 



• Cattjhy, App. 16. 



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