BIRDS. PASSEKES. 27. Caprimulgus* 40 



Houfe Fartin. Lewin t. 125. Aliin t. 56. <7. Walcot t. 252. 



Length 5 inches and a half: extent 10 : weight about 5 drachms. 

 Bill black : mcw/A yellow within : iris hazel ; tail much, less forked 

 than in the fwallow : /<?^J covered with short white down : cUivs 

 white, 



134. H. riparia. With 3 toes forward : mouse-brown, 

 beneath white: a broad mouse-brown band across 

 the throat. 



Sand Martin, lewin t. 126, Alhin t. 56. b. Walcot t. 253, 



Length hardly 5 inches : extent about 10 inches. ; 

 Bill dusky : iris hazel : tat l r with, a slight cinereous edge: //fj^dusky, 

 a little feathered behind. 



135. H. Apus. With the toes all placed forwards : above 

 and underneath sooty-black : chin whitish. 



Swift, Br. Zool. t. ,58, Lewin t. 127. Walcot t. 254. 



Length near 8 inches : extent above 17 : -weight an ounce. 

 Bill black : iris hazel : quill and tail-feathers with dusky margins ? 

 legs very short, clothed to the toes with dusky feathers ; claws 

 black, Female less, and more inclining to brown, 



27. CAPRIMULGUS. Goatsucker. 



136. C. europtEus. Variegated with black, brown, ferru- 

 ginous and white; beneath reddish-brown, with -nu- 

 merous dusky transverse lines. ' 



Night Swallow, Br, Zool. t, 59.. Lewin t. 128, Donovan t. 67. . 



Length 10 inches and a half: extent 22 : weight 2 ounces and a half. 

 Bill dusky, short, weak : eyes large : vis hazel : body elegantly 

 varied with black, grey, dark brown, ferruginous and white, dia- 

 pered in fpots lines and bars : tail rounded : legs short, fcaly, fea- 

 thered below the knees. Male with a large white oval fpot oh the 

 inner-web of the 3 first quill- feathers, and at thfc end of the 2 outer 

 tail-feathers, 



ORDER IV. CQLVMBMi 

 28. COLUMBA.^Zfcwv; Pigeon,. 



137. C. (Enas. Pale bluish ash-colour: neck and breast 

 with a green and copper gloss : lower part of the 

 hack whitish ; wings with % black bands ; tail tipfc 

 with black. 



Stock Dove. Br. Zool. t, 4,5. Lewin t. 129, Donovan t, 107, 



Length near 14 inches : extent 22 ;weight n ounces. 

 Bill and legs red : iris bright yellow : greater quill-fcather?. dusky, 

 with a whitish edge; breast inclining to clarety purple: .sides > 

 whitish : belly and vent pale ash-colour : fr»7 dark bluish-grey, with 

 fometirnes a black bar near the middle j' the outer*-feathers white 

 on the outcr»webs near the bafe. 



138. C, Palumbus, Deep bluish ash j each side the neck 

 a glos3y~white patch : angles of the wings and outer 

 quill-feathers edged with white : tail black at 

 the end. 



Ring Dove, Quest. Lewin t. x$o. Wqlcott. 187, . , 



Length near 18 inches : extent 30: weight 20 ounces. 

 Bill yellowish } iris bright yellow j back inclining to brown j 

 greater quills blackish, the outerrones white on the, quter edges > 

 fpurious wings nearly black, with a white line down to the quilL • 

 lower-part of the belly and vent inclining to white; tail -favV ask, 

 colour, black on the lower part \ legs purplish-red, feathered tH v - 

 Jow the knees. 



