GOATSUCKER. 
difturbed, take them to another place in their bills; make a horrid 
noife for an hour at Jeaft after fun-fet, and before fun-rife, fo as to- 
difturb- the neighbouring inhabitants; and in fine nights, fometimes 
the whole night through. 
Caprimulgus Nove Hollandiz, Jnd. Orn. ii. p. 588. 18. 
Crefted Goat-fucker, Phill. Bot. Bay, t. p. 270.—White’s Fourn. t. p. 241, 
ENGTH nine‘inches and a half: general colour of the plumage 
on the upper parts brown, mottled and crofled with obfcure 
bars of white: quills plain brown, but the edges of four or five of the 
outer ones dotted with dufky white : the tail rounded in fhape, or flight- 
ly cuneiform; the two middle feathers five inches long, the outmoft 
four ; the two middle ones crofféd on both webs with twelve dufky 
white bars, dotted with brown; but the others only on the outer: 
webs: the under parts of the body moftly white ; but the throat, breaft,. 
and fides are marked with narrow dufky bars: bill black; infide of 
the mouth yellow ; fides of it furnifhed with briftles, as in many of the 
genus; befides which, at the bafe of the bill, before the eyes, are ter 
or twelve ftiff briftles, barbed fparingly on each fide, and ftanding 
erect, fo as to reprefent a creft: the legs are pale yellow :. the toes: 
long and flender: claws black, but not pectinated. 
Inhabits New: Holland: no account has been hitherto learned of 
the manners, further than that it appears about our fettlement at Port 
Fack/on,.in March. 
In fome drawings in poffeffion of Mr. Lambert, I obferved one very: 
fimilar, though {maller ; but does not feem to differ fufficiently to. re- 
quire a feparate defcription. 
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Description, 
Piacz. 
