'Mw II. PASSERES. 
Tribe I. Fissirostres nocturne. 
Family I. Caprimulgidje. 
r ^ le Subfamily, 
PODAGERINiE, or Podagers. 
1 the Lill much depressed, and the culmen curved and compressed on the sides to the tip, which 
looked ; thfi , , ■ , , i. w;„™ Inna mid nointed: the Tail more or 
less l on . 
the gape more or less furnished with bristles: the Wings long and pointed, the Tail more or 
and broad : the Tarsi usually long, more or less plumed, and, when bare, covered with 
’-ansverse scales in front: the Toes unequal, with the inner toe generally longer than the outer, and 
“ niore less united to the middle one, which is the longest of all, and armed with a long serrated 
•daw. 
Scortornis Swains .* 
c ^ roa d a t the base, and much depressed, with the apical portion of the culmen arched 
^Pressed on the sides to the tip, which is hooked and acute ; the gape furnished with strong bristles ; 
® aostrJla lateral, and partly clothed by the frontal plumes, with the opening covered by a membranous 
„ ft ( ngs long and pointed, with the second or third quill the longest. Tail very long, broad, 
eov Tarsi shorter than the middle toe, partly clothed with plumes, and the apical p 
®edwith transverse seales. Toes unequal; the lateral ones shorter than the middle toe, and 
toe ionger than the outer; the ciaws short and curved ’ and that ° f ti,e middie toe lons 
J:::.:;- •'.»« E «, are inhabitants of the continent of Africa, especially in the western portion. Their hab.ts 
s ha\e not yet been recorded by naturalists, 
s 
mul SU8 AieiU.) Swains. Gal. des Ois. t. 112.— Capri- I 2. S. trimaculatus Swains. B. of W. Afr. n. p. 70. 
glcaud us Steph. \ 
Macrodipteryx Swains. f 
com 1 ° a< * at the base, and much depressed, with the culmen arched at. the apex, and ' 
lon y«ted t„ the tip, Which is hooked and acute; the gape furnished with bristles which are near y as 
A® the bffl 1 the nostrils lateral, with the opening covered by a membranous scale. W,ngs long, 
beyond the end of the tail, and pointed ; with the first or second qmll the longes , an 
chat ® sta blished hi Swainstm in 1837 (Classif. of B. ii. p. 339-). „ .. . , _ f Mr Gould (1838) ; which name was 
,ar, ^'l by a ^ Swainson in 1837 (Classif. of B. ii. p 33 9 .). It embraces Semeiophorm of Mr. no t 
C osmetornis in 1840. as the Ihrmei- had been nreviously employed in zoology. 
111 ioo| uj jj. ii. j’ . , 
in 1840, as the former had been previously employed in zoology 
