﻿6oo GOATSUCKER. 



black ifh bands ; the others black, bordered with white, which 



takes up mod fpace on the outer feathers : legs yellow brown. 



Place and Inhabits Cayenne, where it is found in the plantations : fre- 



Manners. . . -. r 



quently quivers the wings, and utters a weak cry, which has 



been compared to that of a toad; though it has alfo another 



kind of noife, not unlike the barking of a dog. It is not very 



fhy, for it will fuffer one to come very near before it will fly 



away, and when difturbed perches again at no great diftance. It 



is not a rare fpecies. 



SHARP-TAILED L'Engoulevent acutipenne de la Guiane, Buf. elf. vi. p. 547.— PI. enl. 732. 

 G. 



Description. T E N G T H feven inches and a half. Bill black : the top 



of the head and neck tranfverfely ftriped with rufous 



brown, and black : fides of the firft the fame, but mofl inclined 



to rufous : back grey, croffed with black ftripes : beneath the 



fame, but the ground-colour rufous : tail a trifle longer than the 



wings ; pale rufous, dotted with black, and barred at the end 



with the fame, but the black bar is edged on the upper part 



with white : legs black. 



Place. Inhabits Guiana. 



'4» Caprimulgus'Americanus, Lin. Syft. i. p. 346. 2. 



AMERICAN G. Le Tette . chevre de la Jamaique, Brif. orn. ii. p. 480. 4. 



L'Engoulevent a lunettes, ou le Haleur, Buf. oif. vi. p. 543. 



Small Wood-owl, Raii Syn. p. 180. 4. — Sloan. Jam. p. 296. pi. 255. f. 1. 



Screech-owl, Breivn. Jam. p. 473. 



Description. T ENGTH feven inches; breadth ten*. Bill black, befet 

 with briftles; the noftrils very prominent, Handing out 



• Shane. — Brijfon fays that it is eleven inches long. Perhaps Shane's meafure 

 might only extend to the bafe of the tail. 



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