166 THE BIRDS 
FAMILY CAPRIMULGID/AZ.—GOAT- 
SUCKERS. 
GENUS ANTROSTOMUS. 
[416]. Antrostomus carolinensis (Gmelin), Chuck- 
will’s-widow. 
Ranez.—Southern North America and northern South 
America. Breeds in Austroriparian zone from Missouri, 
Indiana, southern Ohio, and southern Virginia south to 
central Texas and Gulf States; casual in Kansas and 
Maryland; accidental in Massachusetts and Ontario; 
migrates through eastern Mexico; winters from southern 
Florida to Greater Antilles, Central America, and 
Colombia. 
This nocturnal bird is rather abundant along the 
northern bank of the James River, practically its northern 
limit of breeding range (see Auk. XXV, page 478). It 
does not, however, remain during the winter, arriving 
about April 14th. Like the following species, it is more 
often heard than seen, being truly a bird of the night, 
at which time one may chance to see, if in the country, a 
shadowy form, like a spectre, pass before his eyes, swiftly 
and silently pursuing its insect food. Should he be a 
wood prowler of any sort, it is possible that once in a 
great while he may flush the female either from her eggs, 
or a pair of birds from under the sheltering protection of 
a fallen log in the dense woods. Like the Whip-poor-will, 
they are great believers in returning to their old nesting 
site of the previous year. In one instance we took a set 
of eggs from supposedly the same pair of birds, within 
