CAPRIMULGIN^. CAPRIMULGUS. 
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GENUS I. CAPRIMULGUS, Linn. GOATSUCKER. 
Bill feeble, gape extending to beneath the posterior angle 
of the eye. Nostrils elliptical, prominent. Wings long, 
pointed, the second quill longest ; tail long. Claw of 
middle toe pectinate. Along the base of the bill on each 
side, a series of feathers having very strong shafts, termi- 
nating in an elastic filamentous point, and with the barbs 
or lateral filaments extremely slender, distant, and not ex- 
tended beyond the middle of the shaft. Plumage very soft 
and blended. Wings long and pointed, the second quill 
longest ; tail long, rounded. 
41. 1. Gaprimulgus Carolinensis, Gmel. Carolina Goat- 
sucker. — Chuck- wilPs- widow. 
Plate LIT. Male and Female. 
Bristles with lateral filaments ; tail slightly rounded. Head and 
back dark brown, minutely mottled with yellowish-red, and longitu- 
dinally streaked with black ; three bands of the latter colour, from the 
lower mandible diverging along the head ; a yellowish-white line over 
the eye ; wings barred with yellowish-red and brownish-black, and 
minutely sprinkled with the latter colour, as are the wing-coverts, 
which, together with the scapulars, are largely spotted with black, 
and tinged with grey ; tail similarly barred and dotted ; terminal half 
of the inner webs of the three outer feathers white, their extre- 
mities light red ; lower parts dull reddish-yellow, sprinkled with 
dusky; a band of whitish feathers barred with black on the fore neck. 
Female like the male, but without white on the tail. 
Male, 12 1, 26. Female, 13|, 30. 
From Texas to North Carolina. Up the Mississippi to Natchez. 
Resident in the Floridas. 
Chuck-will’s-widow, Gaprimulgus Carolinensis, Wins. Amer. Orn. v. vi. p. 95. 
Gaprimulgus Carolinensis, Bo nap. Syn. p. 61. 
Chuck-will’s-widow, Gaprimulgus Carolinensis, v. i. p. 612. 
Chuck-will’s-widow, Gaprimulgus Carolinensis, Aun. Orn. Biog. v. i. p. 273 ; v. v. 
p. 401. 
42. 2. Caprimulgus vociferus, WiLs. Whip-poor-will Goat- 
sucker. 
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Bristles without lateral filaments ; tail much rounded. General 
colour of upper parts dark brownish-grey, streaked and minutely 
sprinkled with brownish-black ; quills and coverts dark brown, spotted 
