82 NORTH AMERICAN OOLOGY. PART I. 



ORDER INSESSORES. 



TRIBE FISSIROSTRES. 



FAMILY C A P R I M U L G I 



ANTROSTOMUS CAROLINENSIS. 



Caprimulgus carolinensis, GMELIN, Syst. Nat. II, 1788, 1028. 



WILS. Am. Orn. VI, 1812, 95, pi. liv, fig. 2. 

 " BONAP. Syn. 1828, p. 61. 



" AUD. Orn. Biog. I, 1832, 273 ; V, 401, pi. lii. 



NUTTALL, Manual, I, 1832, 612. 

 " AUD. Syn. 1839, p. 31. 



" Birds of Am. I, 1840, 151. 



" " LEHBEYE, Aves de la Isla de Cuba, 1850, p. 130. 



Caprimulgus lucifugus, BARTRAM, Travels, 1793, p. 292. 

 Caprimulgus rufus, VIEILL. Ois d'Am. Sept. I, 1807, 57. 

 Caprimulgus Irachypterus, STEPHENS, Gen. Zool. X, 1817, 150. 

 Antrostomus carolinensis, BONAP. Geog. and Comp. List, 1838, p. 8. 



CASSIN, Syn. N. A. Birds (Illust. Birds of Cal.), 1854, p. 236. 

 VULG. Chuck-wills-ioidow. The Great Carolina Goat-Sucker, 

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HAVING had no opportunities of observing the Chuck-wills-widow in its extremely 

 southern habitat, the present account of its habits and geographical range is neces- 

 sarily drawn from the investigations, and given on the authority, of others. James 

 River in Virginia has been assigned as the utmost northern limit of its migrations. 

 It is, indeed, quite probable that it is seldom, if ever, found, except as an occasional 

 visitant, so far to the north, although Wilson speaks of having met with it between 

 Richmond and Petersburg, and on the Cumberland River. Dr. Bachman states 

 that it is not a common bird even in the neighborhood of Charleston. Mr. Au- 

 dubon, who claimed to have been a very close and careful observant of its habits, 

 states, in his account of it, that it is seldom to be met with beyond the limits of the 

 Choctaw nation in Mississippi, or the Carolinas on the Atlantic shore. Florida, 

 Louisiana, the lower portions of Georgia, Alabama, and Mississippi, and probably 

 Arkansas and Texas, are the States to which it is principally confined. 



My friend, Dr. Kollock, informs me that it is rather common near Cheraw, in the 

 northern part of South Carolina. Dr. Bryant found it abundant near Indian River, 

 in Florida. Colonel McCall met with this bird in New Mexico. Lembeye gives it 

 a place among the birds of Cuba. Dr. Woodhouse, in his report upon the birds 

 observed by the expedition of Captain Sitgreaves down the Zuili and Colorado rivers 

 speaks of the Caprimulgus curoUnensis as common in the Creek and Cherokee coun- 

 try, extending into Texas and New Mexico. 



