AUDUBON JOURNAL 



White Eyed fly Catcher — Muscicapa Cantatrix — 

 the Commonest of all the Birds in our Woods — the 

 young of which Two brood are raised in the season 

 full grown [grown] Midle of July — 



Saw 3 Red Ibisses pass over the plantation Yesterday — 



Chuck-Will's Widow 



Caprimulgus Carolinensis femelle 



Yesterday the 25*^ of July 1821 an Indian of the 

 Choctaw Nation, who habitually hunts for M' Perrie 

 — brought me a femelle of the Chuck Will's Widow 

 in full and handsome plumage, it Measured One foot 

 in length, 25 Inches in breadth, the tail composed of 

 Ten Feathers is rounded, but has not the White in 

 any degree that Willson Mentions on the inner vanes 

 of the 2 exterior feathers — the Craw of this was filled 

 with the heads of Many of that Kind of bugs com- 

 monly called pinching Bugs, One of them a very Curi- 

 ous Large One Armed with Two equal paires of 

 Pincers — 



these Birds generally aboundant in this part of 

 Louisiana, and at present very scarce. Not having 

 been able to Meet one in any of our Excursions that 

 often are of Twenty Miles — a few Weeks previous to our 

 arrival they where heard from all parts of the adjacent 

 Woods loud during the day — a few have been seen 

 and a few heard since, all of which have eluded My 



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