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HUUuqU^ The Churn-Owl or Goat-Sucker. Caprlmulgus. 



/^y- Numb.X. 



ITS Length from the tip of the Bill to the end of the Tail is lo Inches, 

 the Breadth when the Wings are extended 14 Inches, its Weight 

 2 Ouncesj its Head large, its Bill (in proportion to its Body) the leaft of 

 all Birds, and a little crooked 5 it hath a large wide Mouth and Swallow; 

 / ' on the Sides of the upper Chap of the Bill, as alfo under the Chin, grows 



ftiff black Hairs like Briftles. 



The under fide of the Body was painted with blackifh and pale red Lines, 

 tranfverfe but not continued ; the hinder Part of the Head of an afh Co- 

 lour, the middle of each Feather being black j which Colours reach alfo 

 down the Back. 



The Wings are partly colour'd with brown, black, red and afh Colour, 

 powder'd with divers dark and light Specks of afh Colour and black. 



The Tail is 5 Inches long, made up of ten Feathers, the outermoft of 

 which are fomething fhorter than the reft ; they are of the fame Colour 

 with the Back and Wings, with triangular tranfverfe Bars pointing upwards, 

 of black and afh Colour, mingled and powder'd with black and red. 



The Legs were very fmall in proportion, feather'd. on the fore-fide half 

 way. The Legs and Feet darkifh red, the Claws black and little, the mid- 

 dlemoft Toe the longeft, the other two fhorter, but of equal Length with 

 each other, and each joined to the middlemoft by a Membrane, from the 

 Divarication to the firft Joint ; the interior edge of the middle Claw is 

 cerrate as in the Heron. 



In the Stomach was found S'eedsy Beetles^ and other Infe<5ls. 



They lay their Eggs, which are long and white, clouded and fpotted 

 with black, in a Hole in the Ground, without building a Neft, in which 

 they hatch their Young, and when difturb'd will carry their Young to other 

 Places of Shelter j this was obferved by ^iv Henry Heron in Enfield-Chace, 

 where they are very common in the Summer Seafon. I have alfo feen 

 them on /i^/JW^-Zi^rrf/?, and divers other Places. 



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