342 GOATSUCKER. 



are ten or twelve very stiff ones, standing erect so as to represent a 

 crest, barbed sparingly on each side ; within the mouth yellow ; the 

 general colour of the plumage above is brown, mottled, and crossed 

 with obscure bars of white ; under parts of the body, for the most 

 part, white; but the throat, breast, and sides, are crossed with dusky 

 bars; quills plain brown, the edges of four or five of the outer ones 

 dotted with dusky white ; the tail rounded in shape, scarcely to be 

 called cuneiform ; the two middle feathers five inches long, the 

 outmost four; the two middle are crossed on both webs with twelve 

 dusky white bars, dotted with brown, the others the same, but only 

 on the outer webs; the legs pale yellow, toes long and slender, claws 

 black, but not pectinated. 



Inhabits New-Holland ; appears about Port Jackson, in March. 



9— BRISTLED GOATSUCKER. 



LENGTH about ten inches. Bill black, rather stout, and curved 

 at the point; irides reddish; head, neck, back, and wings, dusky 

 black, marked with thick -set, whitish specks ; beneath from the 

 breast dusky white; inner wing coverts the same, mottled with dusky 

 spots; edges of the quills pale, nearly white; tail cuneiform, the two 

 middle feathers three inches and a half long, the outer ones two and 

 three quarters ; beneath pale brown, crossed with about six dusky 

 bars ; legs yellow ; the quills reach about one-third on the tail ; at 

 the base of the bill several strong, erect bristles, barbed on the sides. 



Inhabits New-Holland. — Among the drawings of Mr. Francillon. 

 It seems allied to the last. 



10— BANDED GOATSUCKER— Pl. cxv. 



Caprimulgus vittatus, Ind. Orn. Sup. p. lviii. 



Banded Goatsucker, Gen. Syn. Sup. ii. 262. pl. 136. Shaw's Zool. x. 152. pl. 17. 



SIZE uncertain ; supposed to be ten or eleven inches long. Bill 

 black, not very large, and bent at the end ; the gape extending 



