3 * 
PASSERINE. 
Ex. 
Legs, fhort, feathered before as low as the toes. 
Toes, joined by a fbrong membrane as far as the firft joint. Claw 
of the middle toe broad-edged and ferrated. 
Tail, confifts of ten feathers, and is not forked. 
Inhabits Europe, Afia , and America. 
Flies by night ; infedivorous, fonorous, migratory. Has much 
of the nature of the Swallow. 
Goatfucker, Br. Zool. fol. tab. R. Br. Zool. I. tab. LIX. Capri- 
mulgus of Linnaeus, Caprimulgus and T ette-chevre of BriJJon II. 
470. Linnaeus has only II fpecies, Brijjon VI. Caprimulgus 
and AiyoQy\n<; of the Ancients, from a vulgar notion that they 
fucked the teats of Goats. 
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