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Genus XLV. GOATSUCKER. 



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Grand G. 

 Jamaica G. 

 Grey G. 

 Carolina G. 

 European G. 



6. Virginia G. 



7. White-throated G. 



8. Rufous G. 



N° 9. Guiana G. 



10. Brafilian G. 



11. White-collared G. 



12. White-necked G. 



13. Sharp-tailed G. 



14. American G. 



15. Gold-collared G. 



TH E bill in this genus is very fhort, and hooked at the end. 

 Gape vaftly wide : on the edges of the upper mandible 

 feven or more ftiff briftles. 



Tongue fmall ; entire at the end. 



The tail confifts of ten feathers, and not forked. 



Legs fhort : toes united by a membrane as far as the firft 

 joint j the claw of the middle toe broad edged, and in molt of 

 the {peaes ferrated * . 



But one of the genus inhabits the whole of the old continent 

 and its contiguous iflands : all the others are natives of the new. 

 The manners of them not greatly differing from thofe of the 

 European fpecies. 



• In the tsvo firft fpecies it is not fo ; and in fome of the others the circum- 

 ftance is doubtful, at kaft it is not mentioned. 



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