Genus XLVII. CAPRIMULGUS. GOATSUCKER. 
Species I. C. CAROLINENSIS* 
CHUCK-WI LL'S-W I D 0 W. 
[Plate LIV. Fig. 2.] 
This solitary bird is rarely found to the north of James river in Vir- 
ginia on the sea-board, or of Nashville in the state of Tennessee 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 Richmond and Petersburg in 
Virginia, and also on the banks of the Cumberland in Tennessee. 
Mr. Pennant has described this bird under the appellation of the 
Short-winged Goatsucker (Arct. Zool. No. 336), from a specimen which 
he received from Dr. Garden of Charleston, South Carolina ; but in 
speaking of its manners he confounds it with the Whip-poor-will, though 
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, chucJe-will's-widow ; and in the northern provinces Whip-poor- 
will, 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-will's-widow, and the Long-winged, 
or Night Hawk, to both of which they indiscriminately attribute the 
notes and habits of the Whip-poor-will. 
The Chuck-will's-widow, so called from its notes which seem exactly 
to articulate those words, arrives on the sea coast of G ;orgia about the 
middle of March, and in Virginia early in April. It commences its 
singular call generally in the evening, soon after sunset, and continues 
it with short occasional interruptions for several hours. Towards morn- 
* Gmel. Sy.4. r., p. 1023.— Lath. Lid. Orn. n., p. 584.— 
Vieill. Ois. de VAm. Sept. PI. 25, female, 
f AreL Zool. p. -434. 
Caprimulgus riifns, 
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