GREAT GOATSUCKER. 



(Caprimulgus grandis.) 



Ca. nigricante alio Jlavescenteque variegatus suhtus albo nigroque 

 mriuSj area oculorum Jlavescente, pedibus albis. 



Goatsucker above variegated with dusky, white, and yellow; 

 beneath with black and white; space round the eyes yel- 

 lowish; feet white. 



Caprimulgus grandis. Gmel, Sj/st. Nat. 1. 1O29. — Lath. Ind, 

 Orn, 2. 583. 1. 



Caprimulgus brasiliensis major noevius. Briss. 2. 485. 70. 7. 

 Le grand Tbijau. Buff] Hist. Nat. Ois. 6. 541. 

 Le grand Crapaud volant de Cayenne. Biiff], PI. Enl. 325. 

 Grand Goatsucker. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 590. 1. 



There was a magnificent specimen of this bird 

 in the late Leverian museum, which came from 

 Cayenne : it is described as the size of a small 

 Buzzard, its length being nearly two feet : beak 

 covered with hairs to the tip : gape about three 

 inches wide : upper parts of the plumage cream- 

 colour, dotted with brown ; and the shafts of the 

 feathers the same : inner parts of the scapulars 

 whitish: wings very long, reaching almost to the 

 end of the tail, which is nearly half the length of 

 the bird, and rounded at the end: quills deep 

 brown, banded with white on each web, and 

 with their shafts black: under parts of the body 

 cream-colour ; the breast sometimes brownish : 

 tail brown, with whitish bars: legs brown, covered 

 with feathers to the toes : middle claw not ser- 



