356 GOATSUCKER. 



26— AMERICAN GOATSUCKER. 



Caprimulgus Americanus, Ind. Orn. ii. 587. Lin. i. 34G. Gm. Lin. i. 1032. Borowsk. 



hi. 152. 

 Caprimulgus Jamaicensis, Bris. ii. 480. Id. 8vo. i. 191. Rati, 180. 4. Sloan. Jam. 



296. t. 255. 1. if ram. 81. 2. 

 Strix capite laevi, &c. Brown, Jam. 473. 

 L'Engoulevent a lunettes, Buf. vi. 543. 

 American Goatsucker, Gen. Syn. iv. GOO. Shaiv's Zool. x. 163. 



SIZE of our European Species; length eleven inches,* breadth 

 ten. Bill black, beset with bristles; nostrils very prominent, stand- 

 ing out one-eighth of an inch ; the general colour of the plumage 

 a mixture of grey, black, and fillernot colour, palest on the wings 

 and tail ; the latter four inches long, and the wings, when closed, 

 do not reach much beyond the base of it; legs brown. 



27.-SHARP-TAILEB GOATSUCKER. 



Caprimulgus acutus, Ind. Orn. ii. 587. Gm. Lin.'i. 1031. 

 L'Engoulevent acutipenne de la Guiane, Buf. vi. 547. PI. enl. 732. 

 Sharp-tailed Goatsucker, Gen. Syn. iv. COO. Id. Sup. 195. Shaiv's Zool. x. 16S. 



LENGTH seven inches and a half. Bill black ; top of the 

 head and neck transversely striped with rufous brown and black ; 

 sides of the head the same, most inclined to rufous ; back grey, 

 crossed with black stripes ; beneath the same, but the ground colour 

 rufous ; tail a trifle longer than the wings, pale rufous, dotted with 

 black, and barred at the end with the same, the bar margined above 

 with white ; the end of each feather continued into a sharp point, 

 being bare of webs as in the Thorn-tailed Warbler, f but more 

 similar to that of the Aculeated Swallow. $ 



* Sloane says seven. Perhaps his measure might only extend to the base of the tail, 

 f See p. 147. J See p. 304. 



