The 'goat-sucker of Carolina' mb-artistname W Jeffreys Quercus alba

Quercus alba

and balconies on two storeys

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one standing on a heavy carved wooden table

Philip Jones

The 'goat-sucker of Carolina' mb-artistname W Jeffreys Quercus albaBird identified by Catesby as 'Caprimulgus', the goat sucker of Carolina (modern identification: a composite of three birds: Chordeiles minor, the common nighthawk; Caprimulgus carolinensis, the chuck will's widow; Caprimulgus vociferus, the whip poor will). The term 'goat sucker' comes from the folk myth that these birds sucked the milk from goats. The bird is here depicted eating a mole cricket, Gryllotalpa gryllotalpa. Plate 8 from volume I of The