( 42 ) Passeres. 
)8 Tail almost square. 
y Tail square with the pen /Isaf/iers terminating m « point. 
§§ JVocturnco. Light ^ soft^ plumage shaded with grey and brown, 
2. Caprimulgus, Lin. 
GOAT-SUCKEIIS. 
Beaks more cleft^witli The exterior toes Feet short, tarsi fea- 
strong mustachios; iios- withonly i Joints, Rwd thered. The air in- 
trils, at the base, in the all the toes united by a gulphed in their large 
form of small tubes ; eyes short membrane. beak when flying pro- 
large. Fig. 77. duces a peculiar buz^ 
a. Nail of the middle Tail square. 
toe dentated on its in- 
ner edge. 
h. IS ail not dentated. Tail forked. 
3. PODARGES. 
Beak stronger. Fig. No membrane be- 
163. tAveen the toes. 
FAMILY HI. CONIROSTRES. 
GENERA AND SUB-GENERA. 
1 . A LAUDA, Lin . La rks. 
N ail of the great toe Granivorous *, fre- 
straight, strong, and quent the ground . 
much longer than the 
others. 
a. Beak straight, mode- 
rate, pointed. 
b. Beak so large as to 
approach that of the 
Fringilla. Fig. 78. 
c. Beak elongated, a lit- 
tle compressed and 
arched, approximating 
them to the Upupos and 
Promerops. 
fl) The Salangane {H. esculenta, Lin.}, a small species of the Indian Archi- 
pelago, is celebrated for its nest of a whitish gelatinous substance, made, as it is 
believed, from the spawn of fish or some scum from the surface of the sea : the 
restorative virtues attributed to these nests have made them an important article 
-of commerce in China ; they are dresse<3 like mushrooms. 
