4J4. SHORT-WINGED GOATSUCKER, 



' XXXII. GOATSUCKER. Gen. Birds, U^l. 



3.36. Short- - - Goatfucker of Carolina, Catejby, i. 8. - , 



WIK6ED. Eall India Bat, or Mufqueto Hawk, Lavjfon, 144. 



L'EngouIevent de la Caroline, DeBuffou^vi. ^^2. — Latham, ii. 592. 



With the head, back, breafl, and coverts of the wings, ele- 

 gantly mottled with black and bright ruft-color, and fpot- 

 ted with large ragged black marks : the fcapulars of the fame co- 

 lor, here and there fpotted with white : on the lower part of the 

 back is a mixture of afh-color : primaries and fecondaries moft beau- 

 tifully varied with .narrow bars of black and ferruginous : the four 

 middle feathers of the tai5 barred and mottled with the fame colors i 

 as are the external webs of the three outmoft on each fide; but the 

 inner webs of a fnowy whitenefs. Wings, when clofed, reach little 



Size. farther than half the length of the tail. Length twelve inches r 



Extent twenty-four. 

 p g I received this fpecies from Doflor Garden of Charlejiown, South 



Carolina; where it is called, from one of its notes. Chuck, Chuck 

 IVilPs widow ; and in the northern provinces. Whip poor Will, from the 

 refemblance which another of its notes bears to thofe words. This, 

 Mr. Kalm fays, is the fancy of the Europeans ; for the real found is 

 likeft to Whipperiwhip, v/ith a ftrong accent on the firft and laft 

 fyllable *. It begins its note about the time that the cherry-trees 

 begin to bloflbm, or near the 2ad of April, in the Jerjies; probably 

 fooner in the fouthern provinces. Mr. Blackhurne pbferved them 



Eggs. firft, in the province o( New Tork, in May. Adds, that they lay two 



eggs on the bare ground ; and that they will fcarcely quit them on 

 the nearefl approach. They difappear in Auguft. 



Food. Their food is entirely infefls, which they catch night and morn- 



ing, at the time in which they emit their fong. They never fettle 



* Kalm, ii. 152. 



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