FAMILY IX. 
CHELID ONES, Vieill. 
GENUS XIII. — CAPRIMULG US, Linn^us. 
66. CAPRIMULGUS CAROLINENSIS, WILSON AND GMELIN. 
ch uck-will’s-widow. 
WILSON, PLATE LIV. FIG. II. 
This solitary bird is rarely found to the north of 
James river, in Virginia, on the sea-board, or of Nash- 
ville, in the State of Tennesee, in the interior ; and no 
instance has come to my knowledge in which it has 
been seen either in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, or 
Maryland. On my journey south, I 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 the “ short-winged goatsucker,” ( Arct . 
ZooL No. 836,) from a specimen which he received 
from Dr Garden, 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 alto- 
gether different. “ In South Carolina,” says this 
writer, speaking of the present species, “ it is called, 
from one of its notes, chuck-chuck-wilFs-widow ; and, 
in the northern provinces, whip-poor-will, from the 
resemblance which another of its notes bears to these 
words.” (Arct ZooL p. 4*84.) He then proceeds to 
