GOATSUCKER. 359 



29— WHITE-THROATED GOATSUCKER. 



Caprimulgus albicollis, Ind. Orn. ii. 585. Gm. Lin. i. 1030. 



L'Ibijau, Voy.d'Azara,'™. No. 310. 



White-throated Goatsucker, Gen. Syn. iv. 596. Shaw's Zool. x. 155. 



LENGTH twelve inches, breadth nineteen. Bill browu, with 

 a black tip; nostrils rather prominent; plumage rufous brown, 

 dotted with black; upper part of the body the same, but more 

 obscure; on the throat a large triangular white mark, the feathers 

 fringed with dusky ; under parts of the body pale brown, crossed 

 with dusky lines; scapulars, and most of the wing coverts, marked 

 with a black band near the end ; the tips yellowish butf; second 

 quills spotted with cream-colour on the outer web; the greater dusky 

 black, crossed about the middle with a white bar; tail somewhat 

 cuneiform ; the four middle feathers like the back, barred with dusky; 

 the next on each side white ; the last but one white on the inner 

 web, and dusky black on the outer; near the base a white spot ; the 

 exterior dusky black, but white on the inner web, near the base ; 

 legs brown, middle claw very long, and greatly serrated. 



Inhabits Cayenne. — In the collection of General Davies. Is also 

 found at all seasons in Paraguay. 



30— BERBICE GOATSUCKER. 



LENGTH scarcely nine inches. Bill stout at the base, with a 

 few strong bristles ; plumage above not unlike that of the European 

 Species ; round the back part of the neck a rufous crescent ; on the 

 wing coverts some mottlings of white ; on the throat a large spot of 

 white ; on the back a mottled mixture of rufous and white ; under 

 parts chiefly waved rufous and dusky, towards the vent whitish ; on 

 the first three quills a white spot on the outer web, about the middle, 



