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GOATSUCKEKS. 



A. NIGHT-JAKS. Caprimulgidae. 



Characters as above. 



a. Wliippoor wills. Antrostoniiis. 



Goatsuckers of nocturnal habits with bristles at base of 

 bill; colors, browns and blacks mingled. Eggs, creamy,, 

 spotted with brown. 



1. CHUCK- WILL'S WIDOW, A. CAKOLiNENSis. 13.00; 

 Fig. 231. mixed reddish- 



brown and black; 

 crescent on throat, 

 ye 1 1 o w i s h-r e d ; 

 patch on inner 

 webs of three out- 

 er tail feathers, 

 white above, buff 

 beneath ; female 

 lacks the crescent 

 on throat and 

 white on tail, tig. 

 ^, A, a, 1. 1-4. 231. Breed from 



Ya. southward through the South Atlantic and Gulf States; 

 accidental in Mass. ; winters in the Bahamas, Cuba, eastern 



Mexico south to Central 

 America ; migrates in 

 Sep. and March. Com- 

 mon. Note '"'' C h u c k- 

 tvilVs-ividoiv'' ' rapidly 

 given, sometimes also a 

 series of chuckling notes. 

 Found in woodlands by 

 day, fly about dwellings 

 at night. 



2. WHIP-POOK- 

 WILL, A. vociFEEUs ; 

 10.00; mixed ashy brown 



Fig. 232. 



X, A, 



and black, white crescent on throat and white patch on outer 



