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tips of the wings ; primaries plain blackish with a 

 white spot. In the male, the triangular throat spot 

 and tail band white. North America. 



Tail forked^ hut of which the middle claw has not 

 been observed. 



Banded Goatsucker. Cap. Vittatus. Lath. Supp. 



Under part bluish ; back bluish-clouded ; crown and 

 nuchal band black ; quills and tail, ferrugineous 

 brown. New Holland. 



Strigdid Goatsucker. Cap. Strigdides. Lath. 



Ferrugineous brown ; above varied with dull streaks 

 and spots ; beneath brown ; wing-coverts with three 

 pale lines ; eyebrows white ; tail slightly forked. 

 New Holland. 



Cap. Manurus. Vieil. 



Silvery grey, spotted with black ; smaller wing-coverts 

 white spotted ; tail, two outer feathers five inches 

 longer than the middle ones, the third and fourth 

 very short. Brazil. 



A species, also from Africa, but with the tail 

 round, is very remarkable for having a feather twice 

 the length of the body, arising near the bend of each 

 wing, which is only bearded near its extremity. 

 Cap. Longipennis of Shaw. Nat. Misc. t. 265. 



C. Macropteropus of Afzelius. Hist. Sierra Leone. 

 White-throat Goatsucker. C. Alho Gularis. Vigors, 

 and Horsfield, from specimen in possession of M. Lead, 

 beater. 



Brown, varied with black, grey, and yellow ; under- 

 neath yellowish ; spot on throat white. 



