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with seven or eight irregular dusky brown bars, the tips of the 

 feathers paler than the rest ; the tail is longer by about half an inch 

 than the quills when closed ; legs flesh-colour, rather long. In the 

 woods of Parage ay. 



A. — M. BufFon mentions one from Louisiana in possession of 

 M. Mauduit, similar to the above, which was nine inches long. The 

 bill two inches, with eight or ten very stiff bristles, the point black, 

 with a yellowish base; general colour of the plumage much resembling 

 the other, but the transverse stripes broader on the neck, and the 

 rufous more pale at that part, forming a kind of collar; the rest of 

 the under parts, as in the former. M. Vieillot says, that the Rufous 

 Goatsucker is called in Florida, Chuck Will's Widow ; rarely met 

 with farther north than South Carolina, and is confounded with the 

 Whip-poor-Will, or Carolina Goatsucker, but is a different bird. 



34.— BRAZILIAN GOATSUCKER. 



Caprimulgus Brasilianus, hid. Orn. ii. 586. Gm. Lin. i. 1031. 



Brasiliensis naevius, Bris. ii. 483. Id. 8vo. i. 292. 



Americanus minor, Rail, 27. 2. Will. 70. t. 14. 



Ibijau, Buf. vi. 539. Will. Engl. 108. Pel. Gaz. t. 59. 1. 

 Brazilian Goatsucker, Gen. Syn. iv. 598. Shaw's Zool. x. 161. 



SIZE of a Swallow. Bill dusky, small, nostrils not covered; 

 eyes blackish, surrounded outwardly with a ring of yellowish white; 

 irides dusky ; the upper parts of the plumage blackish, marked with 

 small white dots, mixed with a little yellow ; the under parts also 

 variegated with black and white ; wings and tail even ; the middle 

 claw serrated on the outer edge; legs small, dusky. 



Inhabits Brazil ; is said frequently to spread out the tail in the 

 shape of a fan. 



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