CAPB,IMULGII)2E—CAFjRIMULGIN2E: TRUE GOATSUCKERS. 45^ 



frosted pattern of colciratiou. Markiugs of crown transverse ; priniaries barreil with black' ami 

 tawny. Size small. Sexes alike. Note dissyllabic. Eggs white. 

 398. P. nut'talli. (To Thos. Nuttall.) Nuttall's Poor-will. (J?, adult: Assunjing tlie 

 upper parts of a beautiful bronzy-gray ground color, this is elegantly frosted over \\'itli suft 

 silver-gray, and watered in wavy cross-pattern with black, these black double crescents enlarg- 

 ing to herring-bone marks on the scapulars and inner (piills. Four middle tail-feathers patterned 

 after the back; others with firmer black bars on motley brown ground, and slmrt wjiile lipi-. 

 Prhnaries and longer secondaries bright tawny, with pretty regular black bars, and inaitili-d 

 tips (the half-opened wing viewed from below is cmdonsly like that of the shoit-careil owl.) 

 A largo firm sUky-white throat-bar. Under parts grounded in blackish-brown, gi\ing «'ay 

 behind through oehrey with dark bars to nearly uniforuj ochrey. It is impossible in words to 

 give an idea of the artistic blending of the colors in this elegant little night -jar. The sexes 



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Fig. 295. - Night-liawk, or Bull-bat, 3 nat. size. (From Brelim. 



Bill too bristly.) 



scarcely difi'er ; specimens before me marked ? have as purely white thn.at as the $, but the 

 tail-tips are shorter and tinged with tawny. Length 7.00-8.00 ; extent 1.5.00 ; wing about .5. .50 ■ 

 tail 3.50 or less; tarsus, or middle toe without claw, 0.05. Plains to the Pa.-ific, U. S. and 

 southward, abundant. Note of two syllables, the first of the " whippoorwill " omitted. E<^gs 

 2, 1.05 X 0.80, eUiptical, white. "^ 



CHORDEDI'LES. (Gr. x°P^, chorde, a stringed musical instrument; SitXr,, eveninr' • 

 alluding to the crepuscular habits.) Night-hawks. Glabrirostral : the rictus without long stiff 

 bristles. Horny part of beak extremely small. Nostrils cylindric and rimmed about, hardly tuliu- 

 lar, opening outward and upward. Tarsus feathered part way down in fr. .nt. Tail lightly forked 

 much shorter than the extremely long, pointed, stiff, and thin-bladed wing, with" 1st priinarv 

 as long as the next. Plumage more compact and smooth than in the night-jars ; prinnries 

 mostly whole-colored (in C. Uxensis spotted), with large white (or tawny) spaces on the outer 

 4-6; under parts barred across; a large white (or tawny) V-shaped thn.at-bar. E-os 2 

 heavily colored. Not strictly nocturnal. Remarkably volitorial. ''''' ' 



