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GOATSUCKERS. 



A. NIGHT-JARS. Caprimulgidae. 



Characters as above. 



a. Whippoor wills. Antrostomns. 



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. CAROLINENSIS. 13.00; 



Fig. 231. mixed reddish- 



brown and black; 

 crescent on throat, 

 yel lo wi s h-r ed; 

 patch on inner 

 webs of three out- 

 er tail feathers, 

 white above, buff 

 beneath ; female 

 lacks the crescent 

 on throat and 

 white on tail, fig. 

 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 Fig. 232. 



America ; migrates in 



Sep. and March. Com- 

 mon. Note "Chuck- 



iviirs-ividoiv' 1 ' 1 rapidly 



given, sometimes also a 



series of chuckling notes. 



Found in woodlands by 



day, fly about dwellings 



at night. 



2. WHIP-POOB- 

 WILL, A. VOCIFERTJS; 



10.00; mixed ashy brown X, A, 2. 1-1. 



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



