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also bent downwards, corresponding with the upper when shut; 

 nostrils covered with feathers; the eyes surrounded with a disk of 

 feathers not unlike those of Owls ; the upper parts of the head, 

 neck, and body, are composed of a mixture of ferruginous and black, 

 streaked longitudinally; wing coverts part deep brown, part ferru- 

 ginous and brown mixed, many of the feathers irregularly dotted 

 with blackish ; some of the inner ones with a mixture of white ; the 

 quills deep black brown, marked on the outer edge with eight or 

 nine white spots ; tail seven inches long, cinereous, dotted with 

 black, and crossed with seven or eight bars of black brown ; the 

 legs pretty large, feathered to the toes, which are yellow, claws 

 black ; the middle toe not serrated. 



Inhabits Jamaica, but said to be not very common there ; the 

 circle of feathers round the eyes having the appearance of an Owl, 

 has occasioned Sloane to give it that name. It inhabits woods, and 

 lives on insects. 



17— PARAGUAN GOATSUCKER. 



L'Urutau, Voy. d'Azara, iv. No. 308. 



LENGTH fourteen inches, breadth thirty-one. Bill dark 

 coloured ; irides pure yellow ; colour not unlike that of the Jamaica 

 Species ; throat inclined to rufous ; belly whitish brown ; wings 

 beneath brown, spotted with white ; the tail consists of ten feathers, 

 barred with whitish brown ; quills the same ; behind the eye, and 

 above it, some small, short, narrow feathers, which the bird can 

 erect as horns. 



Inhabits Paraguay, but not very common there ; found chiefly in 

 deep woods, and always perches on high and decayed trees ; and 

 being like them in colour, is not easily perceived : seen in Paraguay 



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