GOATSUCKER. 353 



mottled, and streaked black and yellow ochre ; legs purplish flesh- 

 colour, seamed with white; inner edge of the middle claw pectinated. 



The female is smaller, much lighter on the upper parts, 

 appearing powdered instead of white on the three lateral tail feathers, 

 and has them tipped, for three quarters of an inch, with cream- 

 colour; the crescent on the throat brownish ochre. 



This, Mr. Wilson observes, is the true description of the Whip- 

 poor- Will, and is perfectly distinct from his Night Hawk, or Chuck- 

 will's- Widow; the three being by most people not fairly discri- 

 minated. It has the general manners of the Genus, and lays two 

 eggs on the bare ground, like those of the Night Hawk, but darker, 

 and more thickly marbled with dark olive. This is found in many 

 parts of North America, but most plentiful in the state of Kentucky, 

 called the Barrens. 



23— CAROLINA GOATSUCKER. 



Caprimulgus Caroliuensis, Ind. Om. ii. 584. Gm. Lin. i. 1028. Bris. ii. 475. Id. 



8vo.i. 290. 

 Caprimulgus lucifugus, Great Bat, Chuck-will's-Widow, Bartr. Trav. 290. 

 Engoulevent de la Caroline, Buf. vi. 532. 

 Rain Bird, Brown, Jam. 467. 

 Carolina Goatsucker, Gen. Syn. iv. 592. Gates. Car.\. pi. 8. Shaw's Zool. x. 149. 



SIZE of our European Species ; the length nine inches ; breadth 

 twenty-three. Bill dusky; from under each eye, to the nostrils, 

 about eight stiff bristles, some nearly an inch long; plumage above 

 transversely variegated with zigzag, alternate dusky and grey lines ; 

 on the crown some spots of the last ; that and the neck behind have 

 each feather streaked with blackish down the middle, with three or 

 four pale tawny bars on each side ; wing coverts much the same, but 

 the specklings are larger, and the blackish marks more defined, 

 larger, and accompanied with deeper tawny, especially at the ends 

 of the feathers ; scapulars, back, and rump, much the same as the 



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