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DEscRIPTION. 
Prace. 
8. 
LEONA 
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Description, 
GO ACT SW Kobi Rn: 
Engoulevent 2 queue fourchue, Levaill, O// i. p. 178. pl. 47. 48. 
HIS isa very large fpecies, exceeding in length every other yer 
recorded ; for it meafures from the tip of the bill to the end of 
the tail, twenty-fix inches: the body does not exceed the fize of the 
Brown Owl; but the neck and the tail make two-thirds of the general 
length: the bill is black, much bent, and when the mouth is clofed, 
appears very fmall; on the contrary, the gape is aftonifhingly large ; 
the upper mandible has a fingular kind of notch about the middle, 
into which the under one fhuts, whereby the union of the two becomes 
moft complete: the plumage is not far different in colour from that of 
the European {pecies, being compofed of a mixture of black, brown, 
rufous, and white; but the moft confpicuous character is the enor- 
mous length of tail, which is greatly forked in fhape, the middle 
feathers not being more than half the length of the outer ones: the 
legs are yellow. — 
A male and female of thefe were by chance procured by Mr. Le- 
vaillant ; they had taken their abode in a hollow decayed tree, which 
had fallen by the fide of the river of Lions, in Great Namaqua Land, 
in the interior of the Cape of Good Hope. It makes a noife founding 
fomewhat like Gher, r, r, r, r, in this not greatly differing from the 
European {pecies. 
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Caprimulgus macrodipterus, Afxelius Defer. Sierra Leon. tab. in D°. 
— Leona Goat-fucker, Nar. Mifc. 8. pl. 65. 
His fingular fpecies is about the fize of the European one, and 
not far different from it in the general markings: the length 
from the bill to the end of the tail is eight inches and a quarter; but 
the 
