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with black specks, with seven or eight darker blotches down the 

 shafts ; the three others, on each side, powdered, and blotched rufous 

 and black ; the inner webs wholly white, but on the exterior feathers 

 not reaching quite to the end ; the colour beneath is buff, where it is 

 white above ; and the wings reach three-fourths on the tail ; the first 

 quill is three quarters of an inch shorter than the second and third, 

 which are the longest; legs stout, brown; the middle toe much 

 pectinated. 



The female is much the same, as are all the tail feathers, but the 

 three outer ones are ferruginous for three-fourths at the end, very 

 little mixed with black. 



The above described from specimens furnished by Mr. Abbot, from 

 whom we find that it inhabits Georgia. A pair of them are in the 

 Collection of Mr. Bullock, in the male of which is a white band. 



From the description of M. d'Azara, his bird, above quoted, seems 

 to be the same; but the tail is said to be singularly constructed, the 

 feathers being irregular in respect to length, which is about three 

 inches and two-thirds, and the end appearing as if a piece was 

 hollowed out of a square. Be this as it may, I see no such 

 circumstance in Mr. Abbott's specimen, nor in those of Mr. Bullock ; 

 and it may be possible, that as M. d'Azara saw but the one from 

 which he describes this irregularity of the tail, it may not be a 

 constant character. 



This, according to Mr. Wilson, is truly the Chuck-will's-widow, 

 and not to be confounded with the Whip-poor- Will, for the note it 

 utters is similar to the former, and not to the latter words. Is very 

 numerous in the Chichasaw Country, and throughout the Mississippi 

 Territory, in April and May, keeping up a continual noise the whole 

 evening, and in moonlight throughout the whole night; in September 

 they retire from the United States ; called, by some, the Great Vir- 

 ginian Bat. 



