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GOATSUCKER, 



The circle of feathers round the eyes gives it the appearance of 

 an Owl, whence Shane has not unaptly given it that name. It 

 inhabits woods, and lives on infecls. 



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 GREY G. 



Description. 



Place. 



L'Engoulevent gris, Buf. oif. vi. p. 548. 



T ENGTH thirteen inches. Bill twenty lines long; brown 

 above, and yellowilh beneath : general colour of the plumage 

 grey : wings dufky black, barred with pale grey : tail more than 

 five inches long, of a brownifli grey, barred with brown, and 

 very little longer than the wings. 

 Inhabits Cayenne. 



CAROLINA G. 



Description. 



Le Tette-chevre de la Caroline, Brif. orn. ii. p. 475. 2. 

 L'Engoulevent de la Caroline, Buf. oif. vi. p. 532. 

 Carolina Goatfucker, Catejb. Car. i. pi. 8. 

 Rain Bird, Brown. Jam. p. 467. 



C I Z E of our Goatfucker: length eleven inches and a quarter. 

 Bill dufky : along the edge of the upper mandible ftiff 

 briflles : the upper parts of the head, neck, and body, are tranf- 

 verfely variegated with zig-zag alternate lines of dufky and grey; 

 the crown has alfo fome fpots of this laft colour ; and on the 

 wings are both fpots and longitudinal yellowifh and dufky ftreaks: 

 the fides of the head, and all the under parts, rufous grey, 

 marked with longitudinal blackifh lines : from the gape of the 

 mouth along the jaw, on each fide, is a white ftreak ; beneath this 

 a few yellowifh fpots : quills barred, dufky and grey, and fpotted 

 with yellow on the outer webs : on the inner web of the three 



firft 



