70 
LETTEES FROM ALABAMA, 
Suddenly I was electrified by the clear and dis- 
tinct voice of the Chuck-wiirs-widow [Caprimulgus 
Garolinensis) in a group of trees in the garden, and 
not half a stone’s throw from the window where 
THE CHUCK-WILL’s-WIDOW. 
I was sitting. I cannot tell you how much I was 
delighted with this sound, I had read of it often 
in other lands ; it was invested in my imagination 
