122 FAUNA OF NEW ENGLAND. 



PICI. 



PICIDAE. 



N. H. — Common migrant and summer resident below 2000 ft. ; 

 rare winter resident near coast. Eggs, ISIay 24. 



Vt. — Common migrant and summer resident. April 18-fall. 



Mass. — Common migrant and summer resident; less common 

 winter resident, mainly near coast. Eggs, ^lay 6-June 20. 



R. I. — Common migrant, less common summer and winter 

 resident. Mar. 18-Xov.; winter. Eggs, April 29-May 19. 



Coxx. — Common migrant and summer resident; less common 

 winter resident. Mar. 28-Nov. 28; winter. Eggs, May 18- 

 June 9. 



MACROCHIRES. CAPRIMULGI. 



CAFRIMULGIDAE. 



231. AxTROSTOMUS CAROLixEXSis (Gmelin) Gould. 

 Chuck-will's-widow. 



Caprirnulgus carolinensis Gmel., Syst. nat., 1788, vol. 1, })t. 2, 

 p. 1028. "ViRGixiA & Carolixa." Audubon, Birds of Amer., 

 1840, vol. 1, p. 151, pi. 41. Egg, Bendire, 1895, vol. 2, pi. 1, 

 figs. 8, 9. 



Woods and thickets, active at night; nests on the ground. 



^NIass. — Accidental visitor: Revere (Oct. or Dec), 1884. 

 Coxx.— Accidental visitor: New Haven, May 19, 1889 (after 

 southerly storm). 



232. AxTROSTOMUS vociFERUS (Wilson) Bonaparte. 

 Whip-poor-will. 



Caprirnulgus vociferiis Wils., Amer. ornith., 1812, vol. 5, p. 71, 

 pi. 41, fig. 1-3. "Kextucky." Audubon, Birds of Amer., 1840, 

 vol. 1,' p.^o5, pi. 42. Egg, Bendire, 1895, vol. 2, pi. 1, figs. 10, 11. 



Woods and thickets, active at night; nests on the ground. 



Me. — Common summer resident. April 28-Sept. 21. 



