TRINIDAD GOAT-SUCKER . — Steatornis Caripensis. 
The Goat-suckers or Nightjars are also night-flying birds, but they feed 
upon insects instead of mice. They all have soft plumage, great large round eyes,, 
and very large mouths, so as to catch the insects as they fly through the air. 
One of the most curious of these birds is the Guacharo, which lives in certain 
vast caverns in Trinidad. The natives catch it when young by going into the 
caverns and knocking the birds off their nests with long poles. It is a valuable 
bird, as when taken young, it is one lump of fat, which is melted down in 
clay pots, and produces a very soft and limpid oil, which does not easily become 
rancid. 
The colour of this curious bird is a ruddy fawn, mottled with dark brown, and 
spotted here and there with square white marks, the squares being mostly set 
with one of the angles upwards, in lozenge fashion. 
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