FAMILY IX. 
CHELIDONES, Vieill. 
GEJJUS 'S.lll. — CAPimiULGUS, LlNNJiUS. 
66. CAPSIMITLGUS CABOLII^ENSZS, WILSON AND GMELIN. 
chuck-will’s-widow. 
WII.SON, PLATE LIV. FIG. II. 
This solitary bird is rarely found to tlie north of 
James river, in Virginia, on the sea-board, or of Kash- 
ynle, in the State of Tcuuesee, in the interior; and no 
instance has come to my knowledge in which it has 
seen either in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, or 
Maryland. On my journey south, I first met with it 
oetween Richmond and Petersburg, in Virginia, and 
of the Cumberland in Temiesee. 
Mr Pennant has described this bird under the 
i^pellation of the “ short-winged goatsucker,” (Arct 
00/. No. 336,) from a specimen which he received 
eom IJr Garden, of Charleston, South Carolina ; but, 
u speaking of its mamicr.s, he confounds it with the 
b ,iP'Poor-ivill, though the latter is little more than 
, the ciibic bulk of the former, and its notes alto- 
^etber different. “ In South Carolina,” says this 
’riter, speaking of the present species, “ it is called, 
in°Li notes, cliuck-chHck-wiU’s-wi dow ; and, 
the northern pitivinces, whip-poor-will, from the 
esemblance which another of its notes bears to these 
ords. {Ajct. Zool. p. 434.) He then proceeds to 
