. Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds. Birds; Birds; 1887. CAPBIMULGIDyE—CAPRIMULGIN^: TBUE GOATSUCKERS. 451 390 Analysis of Species. Large: rictai bristles garnished with lateral filaments. Tail with large whole-colored
. Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and lower California, with which are incorporated General ornithology: an outline of the structure and classification of birds; and Field ornithology, a manual of collecting, preparing, and preserving birds. Birds; Birds; 1887. CAPBIMULGIDyE—CAPRIMULGIN^: TBUE GOATSUCKERS. 451 390 Analysis of Species. Large: rictai bristles garnished with lateral filaments. Tail with large whole-colored spaces in S only iAntrosiomus proper} caroimensxs 396 Small: rictai bristles simple. Tail with white spaces in both sexes ( Cayjrimii/r/as .») .... vociferua 397 A. carollnen'sis. (Lat. Carolinian.) Chuck-will's-WIuow. The rictai bristles with lateral filaments. Singularly variegated with black, white, brown, tavvnj', and rufous, tlie prevailing tone fulvous ; a whitish or tawny throat-bar ; several lateral tail-feathers with large whole-colored space in the $, all variegated in the ?. Adult $ : Taking dark wood-brown as the ground color of the upper parts, this is heavily dashed with black, lengthwise on the crown in large pattern, elsewhere similar in smaller style, everywhere minutely punctulated. Fig. 293. —Whippoorwill, Jnat. size. (From Brehm. Tail not rounded enough.) with ochrey and gray, as if dusted over; wing-coverts and inner quills more boldly varied with black centre-fields and tawny or whitish edgings of the feathers. Four middle tail-feathers singularly clouded with gray and tawny on a seeming black ground, the pattern tending cross- wise. All the other tail-feathers with the inner webs having 2-3 inch long whole-colored spaces, ivhite viewed from above, tawny seen from below (a curious difference, which has caused some confusion in descriptions of the sexes of this bird) ; their outer webs mottled with black and tawny. Primaries black, fully mottled with
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