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that of the European Goatsucker, being composed of a mixture of 

 black, brown, rufous, and white; but the most conspicuous character 

 is, the enormous length of tail, which is greatly forked in shape, the 

 two middle feathers not being more than half the length of the outer 

 ones ; the legs are yellow. 



A male and female of these were by chance procured by M. 

 Levaillant ; they had taken their abode in a hollow, decayed tree, 

 which had fallen by the side of the River of Lions, in Great Namaqua 

 Land, in the interior of the Cape of Good Hope. They made a noise 

 somewhat resembling Gher, r, r, r, r; in this not greatly differing 

 from that of Europe. 



14.— FICHTEL'S GOATSUCKER. 



SIZE of the European Species. Bill moderately large, dusky ; 

 plumage in general dark greyish brown, marked all over with white, 

 circular, ring-like spots, of the size of peas ; on the quills about five 

 or six on each side of the web ; legs weak. 



Inhabits New-Holland ; communicated by M. de Fichtel, who 

 described it to me from memory ; but in whose possession the spe- 

 cimen was, when he related the circumstance. 



15— GRAND GOATSUCKER. 



Caprimnlgus grandis, Lid. Orn. ii. 583. Gm. Lin. i. 1029. 

 - maximus, Mus. Lev. t. 9. 



Americanus, Ibijau, Rait, 272. Will. 70. t. 14. 



Brasiliensis major naevius, Bris. ii. 485. Id. 8vo. i. 293. 



Le Grand Ibijau, Crapaud-volant de Cayenne, Buf. vi. 541. PL etil. 325. 



Ibijau the other Species, Will. Orn. Engl. 108. § II. — 2d parag. pi. 14. — larger figure. 



Grand Goatsucker, Gen. Syn. iv. 590. Shaw's Zool. x. 142. 



SIZE of a small Buzzard ; length nearly two feet. Bill, to the 

 gape, three inches, width of the gape as much; nostrils covered with 



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