CAPRIMULGUS LEOPETES, nobis. 



Berbice Goatsucker. 



PLATE LXXXVII. 



C. supra ferrugineo, nigro variegato, nucha cingulo castaneo, pectore castaneo nigro 

 fasciato, cingulo nuchali juncto; gula abdomineque albis; crisso ochraceo. Alis, 

 alula spuria nigra, macula ovali alba in pogonio externo; secondares nigris mar- 

 ginibus pogoniorum externorum ochraceis, apicibus albis, macula alba in pogonio 

 interno ; remigibus nigris, pogonio externo apicibus emarginatis, maculis al- 

 bis in medio quatuor primarum, in reliquis solum in pogonio interno. Cauda 

 breviter furcata, rectrice exteriore albo, pogonio externo pallide ochraceo, 

 medio nigro fasciata, deinde macidis duobis in pogonio interno ; secundo ter- 

 tioque albis, apicibus, marginibus pogoniorum internorum, fasciaque nigris ; 

 quarto fascia, apice pogonioque externo nigris, mediis ochraceo-griseis nigro 

 fasciato et variegato. 



Berbice Goatsucker, Lalh. Gen. Hist. vol. vii. p. 359. No. 30. 



The beautiful Goatsucker which we have now figured, was received from 

 the Glamorgan estate in the island of Tobago, through the attention of Mi- 

 James Kirk, now a resident there. As far as we can discover, it is iden- 

 tical with the Berbice Goatsucker of Dr Latham, a species which appears 

 very closely allied to the white-throated and to the white-necked Goat- 

 suckers, and which, from the descriptions given by that ornithologist, seem 

 to vary considerably in the markings. The chief difference in our specimen, 

 from that to which we would refer it, is in the colour of the back, reddish- 

 brown, with the centre of each feather marked longitudinally, and the 

 webs barred with black, not mottled with rufous and white. The other 

 markings agree nearly ; but we have endeavoured to give a correct repre- 

 sentation, and will now describe our own bird as minutely as possible. 



It is called by the negroes of Tobago Jumbic Bird, and, like its conge- 

 ners, appears in the evenings. The length is about nine inches, the bill 

 considerably elongated, but not powerful, the nostrils small, and sur- 



