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CHUCK-WILL'S-WIDOW, 

 CAPRIMULGUS CABOLIJVEJVSIS. 

 [Plate LIV.— Fig. 2.] 



Pbale's Museum, JTo. 7723. 



THIS solitary bird is rarely found to the north of James river 

 in Virginia on the sea-board, or of Nashville in the state of Ten- 

 nesee in the interior; and no instance has come to my knowledge 

 in which it has been seen either in New Jersey, Pennsylvania or 

 Maryland. On my journey south I first met with it between Rich- 

 mond and Petersburg in Virginia, and also on the banks of the 

 Cumberland in Tennesee. 



Mr. Pennant has described this bird under the appellation of 

 the Short-winged Goatsucker ^ (Arct. Zool. No. 336.) from a speci- 

 men which he received from Dr. Garden of Charleston, South Ca- 

 rolina; but in speaking of its manners he confounds it with the 

 Whip-poor-will, tho the latter is little more than half the cubic 

 bulk of the former, and its notes altogether different. " In South 

 Carolina,^^ says this writer, speaking of the present species, " it is 

 called, from one of its notes, Chuck^ chiick-wiW s^widow ; and in the 

 northern provinces Whip-poor-tvill^ from the resemblance which 

 another of its notes bears to those words." ^ He then proceeds to 

 detail the manners of the common Whip-poor-will, by extracts 

 from Dr. Garden and Mr. Kalm, which clearly prove that all of 

 them were personally unacquainted with that bird ; and had never 

 seen or examined any other than two of our species, the Short- 

 winged or Chuck-wilFs-widow, and the Long-winged, or Night 



^ Arct. -Zool. p. 434. 



