BIRD’S. PASSERES. 90. Caprimulgus. 633 
90. CAPRIMULGUS. curved, 
very fmall, fubulate, and deprefled 
at the bafe ; mouth extremely wide 
and furnilhed at the lides with a fe- 
rics of briftles : ears very large : 
tongue pointed, entire : tail not fork- 
ed, feathers 10: Legs fhort; middle 
claw with a broad ferrate edge. 
GoatJucker,‘ 
The birds of this family feldom appear in the day time, except' . 
• they are difturbed, or in dark cloudy weather, but wander 
about in the evening in fearch of inlecLs ; they lay 2 eggs’ 
which they depofrt on the naked ground : the lateral toes arc 
connefted by a fmall membrane to the middle one. 
Black varied with cinereous, brown, ferruginous and 
white ; beneath reddilh-white with brown bands. 
European G. 
Inhabits Europe, Afia. and Africa; during fumraer frequents 
the woods of England ; lOy inches long ; feeds chiefly 
on beetles and moths ; its note is fingular, refembling 
the noife made by a large fpinning wheel ; this bird was 
formerly, but afalurdly, accufed of fucking the teats of 
goats, whence its«hame, eggs whitifh marbled with blueifh- 
brown. 
Irids hazel ; kgs fhort, fcaly, feathered below the knees. 
The male is diftinguiflied from tht female by a large oval white 
fpot near the end of the 3 Erft quill-feathers, and another on 
the outmoft tail-feathers. 
Brown, tranfverfely varied with grey-bfowii artd a little 
cinereous, beneath rcddilb-white tranfverfely ftreaked f 
‘ chin with a triangular white fpot ; area of the tyes 
and neck above fpotted with orange. p'irginian G. 
Inhabits ATort A America: 8 inches long; makes a difagreeable 
loud node all night long ; eggs green With dufky rpots and 
flreaks. 
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