GOATSUCKER. 



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Sharp-tailed Goatfucker, Gen. Sj/i. iv. p. 600. N" IJ. 



'T'HE circumftance of the tail feathers of this bird being fharp 

 at the ends, was omitted in the defcription given of it in the 

 Synopjis. The fhafts of each feather are bare of webs at the tips, 

 as in the Thorn-tailed Warbler* ; but fhorter, as in the Jculeated 

 Swallow f. 



Buffon obferves, that birds of this genus mix frequently with the 

 Bats; which is not fingular, fince their appearance of mornings 

 and evenings is at the fame hours, and the food of both precifely 

 alike. I well remember meeting with the bodies o( Cockchafers % 

 in the ftomach of the Horfe-JIwe Bat || •, and, on further enquiry, 

 found that the animal ate the body of that infeft only, rejecting 

 the other parts of it; as quantities of heads, corfelets, and wings, 

 were found ftrewed on the ground about its haunts. 



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C I Z E of the Virginia Goatfucker : length eight inches and a half. BOMBAY G. 

 Bill dufky : general colour of the plumage not unlike that of Descr(ptio»j, 

 the Sibirian Owl, being a beautiful mixture of pale afh-colour, 

 mottled with black and ferruginous : the top of the head is pale alh- 

 colour, mottled with dufky down the middle of the crown: on each 

 fide of the under jaw is a pale ftreak ; and on the throat, a whitifh 

 fpot : the bread crofled with numerous cinereous bars : between 

 the legs pale rufous : the quills are duflcy, barred with rufous i 

 the firft the fhorteftj four of the greater quills have a fpot of 

 white on the inner web : the tail marked the fame as the quills } 



• -Sy«. vol.iv. p, 463. N" 71. f /i/.p. 583. N" 32. J Scarabs u 6 



Melolontha. Lit, _ || fliy?. ^«./r. ii. p. 559. N0405. 



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