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black, or dusky brown, mottled and streaked with whitish and rust- 

 colour; breast pale dull ferruginous; belly pale ash-colour; quills 

 marked with seven or more bars of black and white, the white being 

 bordered above with black ; tail rounded at the end, crossed as the 

 quills, with six or seven bars of black and dusky white on each side 

 of the shaft ; the wings reach a trifle beyond the base of the tail ; 

 legs pale yellowish brown. 

 Inhabits New South Wales. 



37— TRINIDAD GOATSUCKER. 



LENGTH about eighteen inches, of which the tail is seven ; 

 expanse of wing three feet. Bill large and strong, upper mandible 

 considerably hooked, with a notch at about the third of an inch from 

 the end, as in many of the Falcon Genus; the under mandible shuts 

 in beneath the bend of the upper; from the gape to the tip about 

 two inches ; colour of the bill that of brown horn ; the base set with 

 numerous, strong, and curved bristles ; general colour of the plumage 

 fillemot ; feathers on the neck, back, and rump varied and barred 

 with a darker brown, or rather black ; those of the head, throat, 

 breast, belly, and under coverts of the wings and tail, with central 

 whitish, or cream-coloured, ocellate spots, margined with black ; the 

 lesser wing coverts brown, those of the last row having each one of 

 the above described ocellated spots in their centre ; the greater wing 

 coverts faintly barred with black ; the scapulars barred, and spotted 

 with black ; primary quills black, the outer margins varied with 

 brown and black ; the outmost feathers with a row of white spots, 

 margined with black on the outer edge; the secondary quills brown, 

 barred and varied with black ; on the two outermost a row of spots, 

 similar to those on the primaries, along their exterior margin ; tail 

 slightly wedged, the feathers acuminate, barred and varied with 



