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and is common all over Siberia and Kamtschatka, not only in the 

 forests, but in the open countries, where it meets with rocks, or high 

 banks for shelter. According to Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, there 

 are two Varieties of this bird in Sumatra, one with brighter and 

 more marked colours than the other; they are very abundant in the 

 neighbourhood of Bencoolen, and are always seen flying in the 

 evening; they make no nests, but lay the eggs on the bare ground, 

 as before mentioned, and are called there Sang Sogan. 



2 —LONG-TAILED GOATSUCKER— Pl. cxiv. 



LENGTH, from the point of the bill to the end of the two 

 middle tail feathers, thirteen inches and a half. Bill broad, short, 

 depressed, horn-coloured, with a black point; at the gape several 

 long bristles, some longer than the bill : crown of the head mottled 

 ash, down the middle some larger blotchings of chocolate ; the hind 

 part of the neck brownish grey, minutely spotted with black, with 

 scarcely any chocolate marks; sides of the neck, breast, and belly, 

 rusty dun-colour, barred with narrow, transverse, dusky black lines ; 

 vent pale dun ; on the throat a large patch of white ; the lesser wing 

 coverts rufous, mottled with black ; below them a transverse, irre- 

 gular, white band ; greater coverts dusky brown, waved with paler 

 rufous ; scapulars chocolate brown, with clay-colour on the inner 

 webs, forming stripes ; the quills deep black brown; the first and 

 second marked with an oval white spot on the inner web, about the 

 middle; the next three with a broad transverse stripe, about the 

 same place; the rest deep brown, barred with rufous; second quills 

 barred rufous on the inner web, and the first six white at the tips ; 

 the tail is singularly cuneiform, the outer feathers four inches long, 

 the next five inches and a quarter, increasing to the two middle, 

 which are greatly disproportioned to the others, being nine inches 

 long, and exceed the adjoining by four inches and a half; these are 



