CAPRIMULGUS. 
ufually two: they are of a long form, of a whitifh hue, 
prettily marbled with reddifh brown. 'The length of this 
bird is ten inches and a half; extent twenty-two inches. 
Plumage, a beautiful mixture of white, black, afh-colour, 
and ferruginous, difpofed in lines, bars, and fpots. The 
male is diftinguilhed from the female by a great oval white 
fpot near the end of the three firfl quill-feathers, and ano¬ 
ther on tire utmuft feathers of the tail. This is the only 
one of the genus which is found in Europe. It alio inha¬ 
bits Afia and Africa, and is found in Siberia and Kamtf- 
cliatka, and very plentifully irt Bengal and Bombay, where 
it feeds on mufkitos. 
2. Caprimulgus grandis, or, the greateft goat-fucker; 
is about the fize of a buzzard. The bill, to the end of 
the gape, is three inches; width of the gape the fame : 
noftrils not perceivable, tiie bill being covered almolt to 
the tip with briftles : the plumage is cream-colour on the 
upper parts of the body, minutely dotted with brown, 
and ftriped with the fame down the fhafts : on the fcapulars 
much white, efpecially on the inner parts of thenr. It 
inhabits Cayenne. This is faid to keep within the hollow 
of loiiie decayed tree in the day-time, and frequents fuch 
as are near the water. It is by far the larged of its race, 
and, like all the reft, is folitary. 
3. Caprimulgus Jamaicenlis, or the Jamaicagoat-fucker, 
is the next in fize to the grandis, being lixteen inches long. 
It is variegated with longitudinal ferruginous and black 
ftreaks. The noftrils are covered with feathers : the irides 
are reddifti yellow ; and the eyes are furrounded with a 
dilk of feathers not unlike thofe of owls ; whence Sloane 
and Brown have not unaptly given it that name. It inha¬ 
bits the woods in Jamaica, and lives on infefts. 
4. Caprimulgus grifeus, or the grey goat-fucker; length 
thirteen inches; brown above, and yellowifii beneath: 
general colour of the plumage grey : wings dulky black, 
barred with pale grey : tail more than five inches long, 
of a brownifh grey, barred with brown, and very little 
longer than the wings. It inhabits Cayenne, and feeds 
on nocturnal infedts. 
5. Caprimulgus Carolinenfis, or the Carolina goat- 
fucker ; nearly the fize of the Europasus, being in length 
eleven inches and a quarter. Along the edge of the upper 
mandible are ft iff briftles : the upper parts of the head, 
neck, and body, are tranfverfely variegated with zig-zag 
alternate lines of dulky and grey; and on the wings are 
both fpots and longitudinal yellowilh and dulky ftreaks. 
This inhabits Virginia and Carolina, and, like the reft, 
appears only in the evening, or when the Iky, being ob- 
icured with clouds, betokens rain; hence the name of 
rain-bird has been given to it. 
6. Caprimulgus Virginianus, the Virginian goat-fucker; 
about eight inches in length. The bill is befet with brif¬ 
tles ; all the upper parts of the body are of a dull brown, 
traniverfely variegated and blended with rufous brown, 
with a mixture of alh-colour, and a little portion of grey 
on the wings; above the eyes on each fide are a few orange 
fpots. This fpecies inhabits Virginia in fummer ; arrives 
there towards the middle of April, and frequents the 
mountainous parts, but will frequently approach the houfes 
in evenings, where it fettles on a rail or poll, and cries for 
feveral times together very loud, fomewhat like the word 
1 ohiperizv/iip, or lo/iip-poor-mill, whence this name has been 
given to it by Edw’ards, Buffon, See. This cry it begins 
juft after fun-fet, and continues at intervals till juft before 
fun-rife. It does not catch TnfeCls always on the wing, 
for it frequently fits upon a convenient place, and leaps 
up after them as they pafs, and returns to the fame fpot 
again. It makes no neft, but lays tbe eggs, which are 
two in number, and of a dull green with dufky fpots and 
ftreaks, on the bare ground in the open fields. The flefh 
is faid to be good to eat. 
7. The white-throatecb goat-fucker : length ten inches 
and a quarter ; plumage rufous brown, dotted with black ; 
head (freaked with black ; upper part of the body the 
lame., but more obfeure ; the fcapulars, and moft of the 
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outer wing coverts, have a black band near the end, and 
the tips yellowifii buff; lefter quills fpotted with rufous 
cream-colour on the outer web ; tail fomewhat cuneiform. 
Latham found this in the colleflion of major Davies; and 
it is ftippofed to have come from Cayenne. 
8. Caprimulgus rufus, the rufous goat-fucker : length 
ten inches and a half; irides yellow ; the plumage in ge¬ 
neral rufous, irregularly marked with black in different 
fhades; the upper parts of the body llreaked longitudinal¬ 
ly, mixed with irregular and oblique markings of this lad 
colour, and the wings are tranfverfely banded with the 
fame ; the throat is crofted with tranfverfe lines, and the 
tail is banded with black. This alfo inhabits Cayenne. 
9. Caprimulgus Guyanenfis, the Guiana goat-fucker : 
length nine inches ; general colour of the plumage ful¬ 
vous, with an irregular mixture of rufous throughout ; 011 
the top of t!ie head, and hind part of the neck, the ftreaks 
are longitudinal, but on the upper part of the back ob¬ 
lique, as well as mixed with fpots ot an irregular fhape on 
the reft of the upper parts, with a greyifh tinge ; from the' 
gape arifes a band ot white, which-paftes along the jaw 
and under the throat. This inhabits Guiana, and is found 
among the ftirubs in the evening^. It is faid to repeat the 
three fyllables mont-voy.au very diftintlly, whence the name 
given to it by Buffon. 
10. Caprimulgus Brafilianus, the Brafilian goat-fucker: 
about the fize of a fwallow ; bill and eyes blackifh, fur- 
rounded outwardly with a ring of yellowilh white; the 
upper parts of the plumage blackifh, marked with final 1 
white dots mixed with yellow. This inhabits Brafil. It 
is faid frequently to fpread out the tail in the Jhape of a fan. 
11. The white-collared goat-fucker: fame fize as the 
laft ; length eight inches ; general colour of the plumage 
blackifh, fpotted with rufous and grey ; on the fore part 
of the neck a half collar of white ; the under parts inclined, 
to browm. It inhabits Cayenne. 
12. Caprimulgus Cayannenlis, t he Cayenne goat-fucker: 
length feven inches and a half; irides yellow ; the head is 
grey, marked with fine lines of black, and tinged with 
rtitous ; tides of the head rufous, each marked with five 
firipes of black ; throat, and fore part of the neck, white; 
back rufous, crofted with black ftfipes ; wing-coverts mix¬ 
ed with grey and black ; breaft and belly the fame, but 
more regularly marked, and interfperfed with a few fpots 
of white ; on the wings a bar of white ; quills black ; the 
two middle feathers of the tail grey, crofted with five or 
fix blackifh bands; the others black, bordered with white; 
It inhabits Cayenne, where it is found in the plantations : 
frequently quivers the wings, and utters a weak cry, which 
lias been compared to that of a toad ; though it has alfo 
another'kind of noife, not unlike the barking of a dog. 
13. Caprimulgus acinus, tire fharp-tailed goat-fucker 
length feven inches and a half; tile fop of the head and 
neck tranfverfely ftriped with rufous broivu, and black - 
back grey, crofted with black firipes ; tail longer than the 
wings, pale rufous, dotted with black, and barred with 
the fame. In this fpecies the (haft of-each tail feather is 
bare of webs at the tip; whence its name. It inhabits 
Guiana, where it is faid not unfrequently to mix with the 
-bats, and to prey, like them, on chafers and other even¬ 
ing beetles. 
14. Caprimulgus Americanus, the American goat-fucker: 
length feven inches; bill black, befet with briftles; the nof¬ 
trils very prominent, (landing out from it one-eighth of an 
inch ; the plumage con ft (Is of a mixture ol grey, black, 
and fillemot-rolour, paleft on the wings and tail; It in¬ 
habits Jamaica, and feeds on infeels as the others. 
15. The. gold-collared goat-flicker : the fize only of a 
lark in the body, but appears larger, and has long wings 
and tail ; upper mandible of the bill hooked; bafe of it 
befet with ten or twelve- thick briftles; eyes black ; the 
head large, flat, and broad.; general colour of the plum¬ 
age cinereous brown, marked with (pots of a dull yellow ; 
behind the bead a dark gold-coloured ring. It inhabits? 
Brafil, and is the-final left of the genu 
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