GOATSUCKER. 341 



7— LEON A GOATSUCKER. 



Caprimulgus macrodipterus, Ind. Orn. Sup. p. lix. Afzelius, Descr. Sierr. Leon. 



t. in ditto. 

 Caprimulgus longipennis, Nat. Misc. pi. 265. 

 Leona Goatsucker, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 264. Shave's Zool. x. 169. 



THIS singular species is about eight inches and a quarter from 

 the bill to the end of the tail, and in colour of plumage much 

 resembles the European Bird ; but the remarkable circumstance 

 belonging to it, is the elongated single feather, issuing from the 

 middle of the wing coverts, twenty inches in length ; this appears 

 as a plain unwebbed shaft, for fourteen inches and three quarters, 

 having a few solitary hairs on the inside only, from thence expanding 

 into a broad web for the remaining five inches and a quarter of its 

 length : this appendage is mottled, not unlike the darker parts of 

 the rest of the plumage, and crossed with five dusky bars, the base 

 and tip of the expanded part being dusky also; the inner web is 

 seven-eighths of an inch broad, the outer scarcely one-eighth, and 

 tapers by degrees to a point ; the whole of the quills and bastard 

 wing barred rufous and dusky alternate, the ends of the feathers 

 dusky and ash-colour mottled ; the tail is rounded at the end, and 

 mottled like the rest of the plumage, but with a greater mixture of 

 ash-colour, and all the feathers crossed with five or six dusky, 

 crescent-shaped, spots, bounded within with rufous, and curve down- 

 wards; the legs are small, and weak. 



Inhabits Sierra Leona, in Africa, from whence several specimens 

 have been brought into England. 



8— NEW-HOLLAND GOATSUCKER. 



Caprimulgus novae Hollandia?, Ind. Orn. ii. 588. 



Crested Goatsucker, Phill. Bot. Bay, pi. p. 270. White's Journ. pi. p. 241. 



New-Holland Goatsucker, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 261. Shaw's Zool. x. 170. 



LENGTH nine inches and a half. Bill black, the sides of it 

 furnished with bristles ; besides which, at the base, before the eyes, 



