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Antrostomus carolinensis (Gmel.) 



CHUCK- WILL'S -WIDOW. 



Popular synonym. Dutch Whip-poor-will. 



C'aprimulgus carolinensis GMEL. S. N. i, 1788,1028. WILS. Am. Orn. iv, 1811, 95, pi. 54, 

 fig. 2. NUTT. Man. i, 1832, 612. AUD. Orn. Biog. i, 1832, 273; v, 1839, 401, pi. 52; Synop. 

 1839, 31; B. Am.i. 151, pi. 41. 



Antrostomus carolinensis GOULD, Icones Avium. BAIED, B.N. Am. 1858,147; Cat. N. 

 Am. B. 1859, No. 1838. -COUES, Key, 1872, 180; Check List, 1874, No. 264; 2d ed. 1882, 

 No. 396; B. N. W. 1874, 2C3. B. B. & E. Hist. N. Am. B. ii, 1874, 410, pi. 46, fig. 1. 

 BIDGW. Norn. N. Am. B. 1881, No. 353. 



HAB. South Atlantic and Gulf States, and lower Mississippi Valley, north to southern 

 Illinois and Indiana; in winter, eastern Mexico and south to Costa Eica; Cuba? 



SP. CHAR. Bristles of gape with lateral filaments. Above, finely mottled gray, ochra- 

 ceous, tawny, and black; the pileum with broad irregular streaks of black, the scapulars 

 with irregular blotches of the same; primaries dusky, spotted with ochraceous rufous. 

 Lower parts mixed tawny ochraceous and grayish, vermiculated and transversely barred 

 with dusky; the gular region and crissum with ochraceous prevailing. Male. Inner 

 webs of three outer tail-feathers with terminal third, or more, white (ochraceous on lower 

 surface), female. Inner webs of outer rectrices without white. Wing, 8.70-8.90; tail, 

 6.26-6.30, 



The Chuck- will's-widow is essentially a southern bird, the extreme 

 northern limit of its range being the lower Wabash valley, where, 

 as far north as Mount Carmel it is, or at least was, not uncom- 

 mon. The writer has heard its easily recognized notes as far north 

 as the then (in 1865) heavily timbered Big Creek bottoms in Rich- 

 land County, about three miles south of the town of Olney. Its 

 habits are essentially the same as those of the Whip-poor-will, and 

 its notes are somewhat similar, but louder, and easily distinguished 

 after once being heard. 



Antrostomus vociferus (Wils.) 



WHIP POOR WILL. 



Caprimulgus vociferus WILS. Am. Orn. v, 1812, 71, pi. 41, figs. 1, 2. 3. NUTT. Man. i. 1832, 

 614. AUD. Orn. Biog. i, 1832, 443; v,1839, 405, pi. 82; Synop. 1839, 32: B. Am. i, 1840, l.v.. 

 pi. 42. EIDGW. Nom. N. Am. B. 1881, No. 354. 



Antrostomiis vociferus BP. 1838. BAIBD, B. N. Am. 185s, 148; Cat. N. Am. B. 185!). N... 

 112. COUES, Key, 1872, 180: Check List, 1874, No. 265; 2d ed. 1882, No. 397; B. X. W. 

 1874, 260. B. B. & E. Hist. N. Am. B. ii, 1874, 413, pi. 46, fig. 2. 



HAB. Eastern United States and British Provinces, north to about 50 in the interior; 

 winters in Gull States, and south through eastern Mexico to Guatemala. (Replaced m 

 Arizona and table-lands of Mexico by A . rociferus ariionce Brewster.) 



SP. CHAK, Bristles of gape without lateral filaments. Above finely mottled gray, 

 brown and tawny, the gray prevailing on the pileum, which has a median series of black 

 longitudinal blotches, with narrower streaks on each side. Scapulars blotched with black ; 



