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a large spot of white on the inner webs, about the middle ; tail 

 rounded, the tour middle feathers mottled, and crossed with dark 

 bars, the others much the same from the base to the middle, from 

 thence to the end white ; under parts, from the breast, dusky white; 

 the wings reach three-fourths on the tail ; legs ash-colour, and 

 covered with pale brown down ; claws black, middle toe much 

 pectinated. 



Inhabits India. — General Harclwieke. In the same collection is 

 another, seemingly differing in sex. In this the colours are less 

 defined; the streak on the jaw not pure white; the spots on the 

 quills and tail the same, but the white on the latter does not occupy 

 near so much of the feather. 



5.-CHUPPA GOATSUCKER. 



Caprimulgus affinis, Lin. Trans, xiii. p. 142. 



THIS is smaller than the Common Species, but somewhat 

 resembles it. The bill very small, nearly straight, brown, with a 

 few short hairs at the base ; irides brown ; plumage in general a 

 mixture of blackish, cinereous, dark brown, rust-colour, and white, 

 in irregular portions ; beneath paler ; across the throat a narrow 

 white band ; the opening of the ears fringed with white, and behind 

 them a white spot ; quills darker than the rest, marked with a 

 round white spot on both webs, three quarters of an inch from the 

 end ; tail rounded in shape, and besides the common mottlings, is 

 crossed with seven or eight darker, and irregular blackish bars ; all 

 but the two middle feathers have an oval white spot, about half an 

 inch from the end ; added to which, the very tip of the outmost is 

 white; legs pale reddish, claws hooked. 



Inhabits India, called Chuppa major. — Sir J. Anstruther. 



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