CAPBIMULGID^—CAFRIMULGIN^: TRUE GOATSUCKERS. 451 



Analysis of Species. 

 Large : rictaJ bristles garnished with lateral filaments. Tail with large whole-colored spaces in 6 only 



{Antrostomtis proper) carolirumsis 396 



Small : rictal bristles simple. Tail with white spaces in both sexes ( Caprimulgus ?) .... vociferus 397 



396. A., carolinen'sis. (Lat. Caroliniau.) Chuck-will's-widow. The rictal bristles with 

 lateral filaments. Singularly variegated with black, white, brown, tawny, and rufous, the 

 prevailing tone fulvous ; a whitish or tawny throat-bar ; several lateral tail-feathers with large 

 whole-colored space in the $ , all variegated in the 9 • Adult ^ : Taking dark wood-brown 

 as the ground color of the upper parts, this is heavily dashed with black, lengthwise on the 

 crown in large pattern, elsewhere similar in smaller style, everywhere minutely punctulated 



Fig. 293. — Whippoorwill, J nat. size. (From Brehm. Tail not rounded enough.) 



with ochrey and gray, as if dusted over; wing-coverts and inner quills more boldly varied with 

 black centre-fields and tawny or whitish edgings of the feathers. Four middle tail-feathers 

 singularly clouded with gray and tawny on a seeming black ground, the pattern tending cross- 

 wise. All the other tail-feathers with the inner webs having 2-3 inch long whole-colored 

 spaces, tvhite viewed from above, tawny seen from below (a curious difference, which has 

 caused some confusion in descriptions of the sexes of this bird) ; their outer webs mottled with 

 black and tawny. Primaries black, fully mottled with broken-up tawny-reddish cross-bars. 

 General tone of the under parts ochraceous, becoming quite so posteriorly, with pronounced 

 tendency to black cross-waves. Length 11.00-12.00 ; extent about 25.00 ; wing 8.00 or more ; 

 tail 5.00 or more ; whole foot 1.75. 9 only differs in lacking the whole-colored spaces on the 

 tail, all the feathers being motley throughout ; primaries more closely mottled with reddish ; 



