PLATE LXVIL 



CAPRIMULGUS EUROPJEUS. 

 EUROPEAN GOAT SUCKER. 



Passeres. 

 Bill conic, pointed. Noftrils oval, broad, naked. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Bill fhort, bent at the end, briftles round the bafe. Mouth very 

 ■wide. Tail of ten feathers, not forked. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER 



AND 



STNONTMS. 



Plumage dark brown, black, white, afh colour intermixed, and 

 difpofed in fpots, fpecklings, &c. 



'Caprimulgus Europ^eus. Lin. S)ft. Nat. I. p. 134. edit. 12. 

 Scop. Ann. I. N°' 254.. 

 Midler, p. 34. N° 291. 

 Kram. el. p. 281. 

 G corgi Reife. p. 174. 

 Frijch. t. iol. 



Brun. 



