370 GOATSUCKER. 



40.— HORSFIELD'S GOATSUCKER. 



Podargus Javensis, Lin. Trans, xiii. 141. Horsf. Research, in Java, — Part 2d. 



LENGTH nine inches. Bill broader than the head, pointed and 

 bending 1 at the tip ; nostrils covered with a flap ; plumage Isabella 

 colour, inclining to rufous, spotted, or powdered with brown ; tail 

 fasciated and waved ; the quills, from the second to the sixth, emar- 

 ginated externally; the first short; the fourth and fifth longer; the 

 rest gradually shorter ; the wings shorter than the tail ; claws simple, 

 and nearly equal. 



Inhabits Java, where it is very rare ; Dr. Horsfield only met with 

 one of them. It has the manners of the Goatsucker. The name in 

 Java, is Chaba-wonno. 



END OF VOL. VII. 



JACOB AND JOHNSON, PRINTERS, 

 WINCHESTER. 



