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WHITE-COLLARED GOATSUCKER. 



feathers grey, with five or six dusky bands ; the 

 rest black, with white borders, the most outward 

 ones with the deepest border : legs dirty yellow 

 brown. 



This bird is said to have a note similar to the 

 croaking of a toad, and at times another sort of 

 noise similar to the barking of a dog. 



^HITE-COLLARED GOATSUCKER. 



(Caprimulgus semitorquatus.) 



Ca. nigricans rufo griseoque maculatus, collo inferior e lunula 

 alba. 



Dusky Goatsucker, spotted with rufous and grey, the throat 



beneath with a white lunula. 

 Caprimulgus semitorquatus. Gmel. Syst» Nat. 1. 1031. — Lath. 



IndlOrn. 2. 586. II. 

 Le petit Engoulevent de Cayenne. Buff, Hist. Nat. Ois, 6. 



540.— Bm^ pi. Enl. 734. 

 White-collared Goatsucker. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. sgg. 11. 



The White-collared Goatsucker is the size of a 

 Swallow: the prevailing colour of its plumage is 

 dusky^ spotted with rufous and grey : the under 

 inclined to brown, with a half collar of white on 

 the fore-part of the neck : length eight inches. 

 Inhabits Cayenne. 



