GOATSUCKER. 357 



Inhabits Guiana. Buffbn observes, that birds of this Genus 

 mix with the Bats, which is not singular, as they appear at the same 

 hours, and prey on the same food. I have found the bodies of cock- 

 chafers* in the stomach of the Horseshoe-Bat,| of which this animal 

 eats the bodies only, rejecting the other parts, which may be found 

 strewed ou the ground about its haunts. 



28.-GEORGIAN GOATSUCKER. 



Caprimulgus Carolinensis, Chuck-will's-Widow, Am. Orn.v'i. p. 95. pi. 54. f. 2. 



L'Ibiyau a Queue singulaire, Voy. d'Azara, iv. No. 315 ? 



Long-winged Goatsucker, Arct. Zool. ii. pi. IS. 



Short-winged Goatsucker, Arct. Zool. No. 336. Descrip. ? Shaic's Zool. x. 151. 



LARGER than the European Species; length twelve inches. 

 From the point of the bill to the nostrils about a quarter of an inch ; 

 but the gape is enormous, and continued three quarters of an inch 

 beyond the eyes; colour of the bill pale rufous, with the point curved 

 and black ; along the edge of the upper mandible seven or eight 

 stout, black bristles, some of them nearly an inch long, and barbed 

 on the sides; plumage, on the upper parts, not unlike that of the 

 European Species, but darker, being spotted and marbled with 

 black, rufous, and ash-colour; and every where powdered with 

 minute specks of black, with here and there irregular darker spots, 

 approaching to black ; the inner part of the bend of the wing mixed 

 ferruginous; over the eye a streak of black and white mixed; the 

 under parts, from the chin, ferruginous, crossed with irregular lines 

 of black ; under tail coverts ferruginous brown, crossed with a few 

 lines of black ; breast much darker than the rest of the under parts; 

 quills dusky, barred with rufous ; tail six inches long, and much 

 rounded at the end ; the four middle feathers dull rufous, powdered 



* Scarabeeus Melolontha.— Lin. f Hist. Quadr. ii. p. 316. No. 512. 



