THE GOATSUCKERS. 
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Mr. Jerdon"^ says that the Hindustani name for the goat- 
suckers is ChippitJc, Dub-ckooree, and Andhe-chooree, each 
of them alluding to the habit of the species suddenly squat- 
ing close to the ground, as they do, when, on being disturbed 
in the day-time, they have flown from a short distance. In 
Teloogoo the goatsuckers are called Kuppa-pitta, or frog- 
bird, from their fiat head, large eyes and mouth; and a 
name somewhat similar in meaning is sometimes applied to 
them in France {crapaud volant), though in this latter case 
the name " flying frog is acquired rather by the dissonant 
notes which have given to the bird the name of night-jar,^^ 
and to which Wordsworthf alludes in ^The Waggoner.^ 
" The dor-hawk, solitary bird, 
Round the dim crags on heavy pinions wheeling. 
With untired voice sings an unvaried tune ; 
Those burring notes are all that can be heard 
In silence deeper far than that of deepest noon." 
One of the most remarkable of the goatsuckers is the 
Guacharo {Steatornis caripensis, PL II. fig. 1), first described 
by Humboldt and Bonpland, from specimens which they took 
in a cave, at the foot of one of the peaks of the Cumana 
mountains called Guacharo. It is said that this bird lives 
* Illustrations of Indian Ornithology, pi. 24. 
t Poetical works, vol. i. p. 277. 
