CHUCK-WILL’S-WIDOW. 
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something like that of a cock, and streaked with yellowish 
brown; wing quills barred with black and bright rust; tail round- 
ed, extending about an inch beyond the tips of the wings; it 
consists of ten feathers, the four middle ones are powdered with 
various tints of ferruginous, and elegantly marked with fine zig- 
zag lines and large herring-bone figures of black; exterior edges 
of the three outer feathers bai'red like the wings; their interior 
vanes for two-thirds of their length are pure snowy white, mar- 
bled with black and ferruginous at the base; this white spreads 
over the greater part of the three outer feathers near their tips; 
across the throat is a slight band or mark of whitish; breasi 
black, powdered with rust; belly and vent lighter; legs feath- 
ered before nearly to the feet, which are of a dirty purplish flesh 
colour; inner side of the middle claw deeply pectinated. 
The female difiers chiefly in wanting the pure white on the 
three exterior tail feathers, these being more of a brownish cast. 
