GOATSUCKER. 337 



4— BOMBAY GOATSUCKER. 



Caprimulgus Asiaticus, Ind. Om. ii. 588. 



Bombay Goatsucker, Gen. Syn. Sup. 195. Id. Sup. ii. 260. Shaw's Zoo/, x. 156. 



LENGTH eight inches and a half. Bill dusky ; general colour 

 of the plumage not unlike that of the Siberian Owl, being a beau- 

 tiful mixture of pale ash-colour, marbled with black and ferruginous ; 

 top of the head pale ash-colour, mottled with dusky down the 

 middle of the crown ; on each side of the under jaw a pale streak, 

 and on the throat a whitish spot; breast crossed with numerous 

 cinereous bars ; between the legs pale rufous; quills dusky, barred 

 with rufous, the first shortest; four of the greater marked with a 

 white spot on the inner webs; tail in colour like the quills, but the 

 two middle feathers mottled as the back, the two outer with the ends 

 white for about one inch, but extending higher up on the outer web; 

 claw of the middle toe serrated. 



Inhabits Bombay, in the East Indies. 



A. — L'Engoulevent a Collier, Levail. Ois. i. 186. pi. 49. Shaw's Zool. x. 157. 



This is likened to our European Species, and differs chiefly from 

 the former, in having the white on the throat broadening on the 

 sides into fine yellow orange. 



The female is smaller, and the white on the throat inclines to 

 rufous, but without the accompanying orange, so conspicuous in the 

 male; and the spot on the tail rufous, instead of white ; as it is in 

 the orange streak, being a continuation of the white one, that this 

 differs from the Bombay described above, it probably may arise from 

 different periods of age. 



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