General 
descrip- 
tion. 
138 INSECTIV. CAPRIMULGUS.  Goarsucxer. 
Prater 42*. A male bird of the natural size. 
General plumage ash-grey, spotted and streaked with yellow- 
ish-brown. On the head, and down the middle of the 
back, run long black streaks. Throat having large 
white spots. Under parts yellowish-brown, with trans- 
verse blackish-brown bars. Outer webs of the quills 
scolloped with orange-brown ; the three exterior feathers 
having a large white patch on the inner webs near their 
tips. Tail marked with zigzag lines or bars of black, 
grey, and yellowish-brown; the two outer feathers on 
each side tipped with white. Bill very short; colour 
blackish-brown. Gape very wide. Irides dark. Legs 
short, yellowish-brown. The whole of the plumage is 
very soft, and silky to the touch. 
The female is without the white spots on the quill-feathers, 
and the white upon the tips of the outer tail-feathers. In 
other respests she resembles the male bird. 
Orper Vil. PASSERINE. PASSERES. 
‘Vuis extensive Order contains all the Genera that exhibit 
characters in which the other Orders are deficient, or, from 
being itself deficient in the essential distinctions upon which 
they have been instituted, could not properly be included in 
any of them. It is separated into two divisions. The First 
Division contains those genera that have the bill rather slen- 
der, defiected at the tip, and emarginated. The feet are ar- 
ticulated alike,£viz. with three toes before and one behind, 
but in this division the outer toe is generally jomed to the 
middle one, as far as the:first jot. In the Second Division 
the bill is more or*less cone-shaped, and the toes are entirely 
divided. 
These divisions are correspondent to Mons. TEMMINCcK’s 
two Orders Insectivores and Granivores, but I should con- 
