CAPRIMULGID.E—CAPRIMULGIN.^: TRUE GOATSUCKERS. 565 



Analysis of Species and Subspecies. 



Large : wing 8.00 or more ; rictal bristles garnished with lateral filaments. Tail with large wliole-colored spaces in 

 (f only. (Antrostomus proper) carolinensis 



Small : wing 7.00 or less, rictal bristles simple. Tail with light spaces in both sexes. 



Eastern N. Am vociferus 



Arizona and New Mexico . . v. macromystax 



A. carolinen'sis. (Lat. Carolinian. Fig. 382.) Chuck-will's-widow. The rictal bristles 

 tvith 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 ^, all variegated in 9 • Adult (^: Taking dark wood-brown as ground 

 color of upper parts, this is heavily dashed with black, lengthwise on crown in large pattern, 

 elsewhere similar in smaller style, everywhere minutely punctuated with ochrey and gray, as 

 if dusted over; wing-coverts and inner quills more boldly varied with black centre-fields and 

 tawnv or whitish edgings of the feathers. Four middle tail-feathers singularly clouded with 





Fio. 382. — Antrostomus Carolinensis, nat. size. (L. A. Puertes.) 



gray and tawny on a seeming black ground, tlie pattern tending crosswise. All other tail- 

 feathers with inner webs having 2-3 inch long whole-colored spaces, white 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 under parts ochra- 

 ceous, becoming quite so posteriorly, with pronounced tendency to black cross-waves. Length 

 11.00-12.00; e.xtent about 25.00; wing 8.00 or more; tail (>.00 or more; whole foot 1.75. 

 9 only differs in lacking whole-colored spaces on tail, all tlio feathers being motley through- 

 out; primaries more closely mottled with reddish; rather smaller; but the Chuck-will's-widow 

 is on the whole about twice as bulky as the Wiiippoorwill, and should never be mistaken for 

 it. South Atlantic and Gulf States ; Cuba; S. in winter to the IT. S. of Colombia ; N. on the 

 Atlantic only to Virginia regularly, to Massachusetts accidentally, in the Mississipjii valley to 

 Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, and casually Kansas; W. in portions of Arkansas, Indian Ter- 



