CAPRIMULGID^. 



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Inhabits Java. Length ten inches, of which the 

 tail is five and a quarter : from the gape spring several 

 rigid bristles, pointing forwards ; these are white at 

 the base and black at the extremities : plumage in 

 general clouded with ferruginous and blackish: on 

 the crown a streak of black ; and some bands of the 

 same colour on the wing-coverts: on the throat a 

 whitish band : tail longer than the rest of the bird, 

 and very much wedged : the four internal feathers 

 terminated by a broad, whitish, ferruginous band; 

 across the middle of the wing a similar band formed 

 by irregular marks on the wing-feathers, 



Sp. 22. Ca. longicaudis. 



Qa.Jusco ferrugineo nigroque variegatus ; vertice cinereo ferru- 

 gineo maculato ; gula macula alba; Cauda corpore longiore 

 cuneatd Jasciis nigricantibus. 



Gooatsucker variegated with brown ferruginous^ and black, with 

 the crown ash-coloured spotted with rust-colour ; the throat 

 with a white spot; the tail longer than the body, wedge-shaped 

 and barred with dusky. 



Long-tailed Goatsucker. Lath. Gen. Hist. vii. 335.^9. cxiv. 



" Inhabits Sierra Leone. Length, from the point 

 of the beak to the end of the two middle tail-feathers, 

 thirteen inches and a half: beak broad, short, de- 

 pressed, horn-coloured, with a black point ; at the 

 gape several long bristles, some longer than the beak : 

 crown of the head mottled ash, down the middle some 

 larger blotchings of chocolate : the hind part of the 

 neck brownish-grey, minutely spotted with black, 

 with scarcely any chocolate marks : sides of the neck. 



