346 GOATSUCKER. 



bristles; the plumage on the upper parts of the body cream-colour, 

 minutely dotted with brown, and striped with the same down the 

 shafts; on the scapulars much white, especially on the inner parts; 

 outer ridge of the wing brown ; quills deep brown, a little barred 

 with white on each side; shafts black; tail eleven inches long, and 

 rounded at the end ; colour brown, crossed with seven or eight narrow 

 bars of dotted white ; the wings, when closed, nearly reach the end 

 of the tail ; legs brown, covered with feathers almost to the toes; 

 the middle claw not serrated. 



Inhabits Cayenne. — One, in the possession of the late Sir A. 

 Lever, seemed to be longer than that of Buffon, by one inch and a 

 half. He mentions one that had the breast brownish ; perhaps 

 differing in sex from the above. It is said, to keep within the hollow 

 of a decayed tree in the day-time, and to frequent such as are near 

 the water. It is among the largest of its race, and a solitary species. 

 Buffon 's Grand Ibijau, is represented in Marcgrave, as having a 

 crest, as also a horn on the head, and has been so copied by Wil- 

 lughby ; but as we cannot rely on Marcgrave's figures, we may 

 venture to suppose it no other than the abovementioned. 



It is found in Brazil, where it is called Mandalua : the note is 

 a mere melancholy whistle.* 



16— JAMAICA GOATSUCKER— Pl. cxvi. 



Caprimulgus Jamaicensis, Ind. Orn. ii. 584. Gm. Lin. i. 1029. 

 Guira-querea, Raii, 180. 3. Bnf. vi. 536. Sloan. Jam. ii. 295. 

 Mountain Owl, Brown, Jam. 473. 

 Jamaica Goatsucker, Gen. Syn. iv. 491. 2. pl. 57. Shaw's Zool. x. 144. 



SIZE of the Long-eared Owl ; length sixteen inches. Bill from 

 the tip to gape two inches and a quarter ; the end, for a quarter of an 

 inch or more, bent downwards, and black ; the under mandible is 



* Maxim. Tr. i. 329. 



