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GENUS 47. CAPRIMULGUS. GOATSUCKER. 
SPECIES 1. C. CAROLINENSIS* 
CHUCK-WILL’S-WIDOW. 
[Plate LIV. — Fig. 2.] 
Peale’s il/wsernn, JVy. 7723. 
This solitary bird is rarely found to the north of James river 
in Virginia on the sea-board, or of Nashville in the state of Ten- 
nesee in the interior; and no instance has come to my know- 
ledge in which it has been seen either in New Jersey, Penn- 
sylvania or Maryland. On my journey south 1 first met with it 
between Richmond and Petersburg in Virginia, and also on the 
banks of the Cumberland in Tennesee. 
Mr. Pennant has described this bird under the appellation of 
\h.& Short-winged Goatsucker, {Kvci. Zool. No. 336.) from a 
specimen which he received from Dr. G arden 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, chuck-wilV s-widow ; 
and in the northern provinces Whip-poor-will, from the re- 
semblance which another of its notes bears to those words. ”t 
He then proceeds to detail the manners of the common Whip- 
poor-will, by exti-acts 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 
* Gmel. Sijst. I, p. 1028. — Lath. Ind. Orn. ii, p. 584. — Caprimulgtis rufus, 
ViEitL. Ois. de VAm. Sejd. PL 25, female, 
f Arct. Zool. p. 434. 
