336 GOATSUCKER. 



mottled, and a little blotched ; the others much the same, but crossed 

 with eight or ten blackish marks, resembling bars ; the outer one 

 wholly white on the outer web, and the end equally so for three 

 quarters of an inch ; the next only white at the end ; the legs short, 

 yellowish dun-colour, covered half way by the feathers of the thighs, 

 claws horn-colour, the middle toe very long, and the claw of it 

 greatly pectinated. 



Inhabits Sierra Leona. — In the collection of Mr. H. Brogden. 



One in the collection of Mr. Bullock, which I judge to be a 

 female, was in length only nine inches, as the tail measured no more 

 than four and a half; plumage much the same, but with less white 

 in the wings, and without the white patch on the throat; the outer 

 tail feathers, too, were not white at the ends, but pale clay-colour; 

 the two outer quills with a large white spot on the inner webs, and 

 the two next the same on both webs ; the second quills were also 

 pale clay-colour at the ends instead of white. 



3— JAVAN GOATSUCKER. 



Caprimulgus macrourus, Lin. Trans, xiii. 142. — Horsfield. 



THE whole length of this species is ten inches, of which the 

 tail is five inches and a quarter, being longer than the body; from 

 the gape spring several rigid bristles, pointing forwards, these are 

 white at the base, and black at the extremities; plumage in general 

 clouded with ferruginous and blackish ; on the crown a streak of 

 black ; and some bands of the same colour on the wing coverts; on 

 the throat a whitish band ; tail longer than the rest of the bird, and 

 cuneiform; the four internal feathers terminated by a broad, whitish, 

 ferruginous band ; across the middle of the wing a similar band, 

 formed by irregular marks on the quill feathers. 



Inhabits Java, and seems greatly allied to the last described. 



