CAPEIMULGID^ — CAPMIMULGINJE : TItUE GOATSUCKERS. 451 
Analysis of Species. 
Large : rictal bristles garnished with lateral filaments. Tail with large whole-colored spaces in 6 only 
(Anirostomus proper) carolinensis 396 
Small : rictal bristles simple. Tail with white spaces in both sexes ( CapriTOtt^g'tts ?) .... vociferus 397 
396. A., carolinen'sis. (Lat. Carolinian.) Chuck- will's- WIDOW. The rictal bristles with 
lateral filaments. Singularly variegated with black, white, brown, tawny, and rufous, the 
prevailing tone fulvous ; a whitish or tawny throat-bar ; several lateral tail-feathers with large 
whole-colored space in the $ , all variegated in the 9 • Adult $ : Taking dark wood-brown 
as the ground color of the upper parts, this is heavily dashed with black, lengthwise on the 
crown in large pattern, elsewhere similar in smaller style, everywhere minutely punctulated 
Fig. 293. — Whippoorwill, J nat. size. (From Brehm. Tail not rounded enough.) 
with ochrey and gray, as if dusted over ; wing-coverts and inner quills more boldly varied with 
black centre-fields and tawny or whitish edgings of the feathers. Four middle tail-feathers 
singularly clouded with gray and tawny on a seeming black ground, the pattern tending cross- 
wise. All the other tail-feathers with the inner webs having 2-3 inch long whole-colored 
spaces, white viewed from above, tawny seen from below (a curious difference, which has 
caused some confusion in descriptions of the sexes of this bird) ; their outer webs mottled with 
black and tawny. Primaries black, fully mottled with broken-up ta\^Tiy-reddish cross-bars. 
General tone of the under parts ochraceous, becoming quite so posteriorly, with pronounced 
tendency to black cross-waves. Length 11.00-12.00 ; extent about 25.00 ; wing 8.00 or more ; 
tail 5.00 or more ) whole foot 1.75. 9 oi^ly differs in lacking the whole-colored spaces on the 
tail, aU the feathers being motley throughout ; primaries more closely mottled with reddish ; 
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