CAPBIMULGIB^ — CAPMIMULGIN^ : TBUE GOATSUCKEBS. 451 



Analysis of Species. 

 Large : rictai bristles garnished with lateral filaments. Tail with large whole-colored spaces in S only 



lAntrostomus proper) carolinensis 396 



Small : rictal bristles simple. TaU with white spaces in both sexes ( Caprimulgue ?) .... vociferus 397 



396. A. carolinea'sis. (Lat. Carolinian.) Chuck-will's-widow. The rictal Iristles with 

 lateral filaments. Singularly variegated with black, white, brown, tawny, and rufous, the 

 prevailing tone fulvous ; a whitish or tawny throat-bar ; several lateral tail-feathers with large 

 whole-eolored space in the $, all variegated in the ? . Adult $ : Taking dark wood-brown 

 as the ground color of the upper parts, this is heavily dashed with black, lengthwise on the 

 crown in large pattern, elsewhere similar in smaller style, everywhere minutely punctulated 



Fis. 293. — 'TOiippoorwill, Jnat. size. (Prom.Brehm. Tail not rounded enough.) 



with ochrey and gray, as if dusted over ; wing-coverts and inner quills more boldly varied with 

 black centre-fields and tawny or whitish edgings of the feathers. Four middle tail-feathers 

 singularly clouded with gray and tawny on a seeming black ground, the pattern tending cross- 

 wise. All the other tail-feathers with the inner webs having 2-3 inch long whole-colored 

 spaces, white viewed from above, tawny seen from below (a curious difference, which has 

 caused some confusion in descriptions of the sexes of this bird) ; their outer webs mottled with 

 black and tawny. Primaries black, fully mottled with broken-up tawny-reddish cross-bars. 

 General tone of the under parts ochraceous, becoming quite so posteriorly, with pronounced 

 tendency to black cross-waves. Length 11.00-13.00 ; extent about 23.00 ; wing 8.00 or more ; 

 tail 6.00 or more ; whole foot 1.75. 9 only diflFers in lacking the whole-eolored spaces on the 

 tail all tbe feathers being motley throughout; primaries more closely mottled with reddisli ; 



