GENUS 47. CAPRIMULGUS. GOATSUCKER. 



SPECIES 1. C. CAROLINENSIS* 



CHUCK-WILL'S-WIDOW. 



[Plate LIV. Fig. 2.] 

 PEALE'S Museum, JVo. 7723. 



THIS solitary bird is rarely found to the north of James river 

 in Virginia on the sea-board, or of Nashville in the state of Ten- 

 nesee in the interior; and no instance has come to my know- 

 ledge in which it has been seen either in New Jersey, Penn- 

 sylvania or Maryland. On my journey south 1 first met with it 

 between Richmond and Petersburg in Virginia, and also on the 

 banks of the Cumberland in Tennesee. 



Mr. Pennant has described this bird under the appellation of 

 the Short-winged Goatsucker, (Arct. Zool. No. 336.) from a 

 specimen which he received from Dr. Garden of Charleston, South 

 Carolina; but in speaking of its manners he confounds it withfthe 

 Whip-poor-will, though the latter is little more than half the 

 cubic bulk of the former, and its notes altogether different. " In 

 South Carolina," says this writer, speaking of the present species, 

 " it is called, from one of its notes, Chuck, chuck-will' 's-widow ; 

 and in the northern provinces Whip-poor-will, from the re- 

 semblance which another of its notes bears to those words."! 

 He then proceeds to detail the manners of the common Whip- 

 poor-will, by extracts from Dr. Garden and Mr. Kalm, which 

 clearly prove that all of them were personally unacquainted 

 with that bird; and had never seen or examined any other than 



* GME*. Syst. i, p. 1028. LATH. Ind. Orn. n, p. 584. Caprimulgus rufus, 



. Ois. de I'dm. Sept. PL 25, female. 

 Arct. Zool. p. 434. 



