. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 172 BIRDS OF AMERICA NIGHTHAWK Chordeiles virginianus virginianus (Ginclin) A. O. U. Number 420 See Color Plates 65 Other Names.— Goatsucker of Carolina; Bull-bat; Mosquito Hawk; Will-o'-the-Wisp; Pisk; Piramidig; Long-winged Goatsucker. General Description.—Length, lo inches. Plumage, a variegation of black, gray, brown, and buf=f; ifhitc patch oil wing. Tail, cmargiiiatc. Color.—Adult Male: Prevailing color of upper parts, sooty-black, very faintly glossed with greenish, much broken by irregular spotting, marbling, and streaks of buff, pale buffy-
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. 172 BIRDS OF AMERICA NIGHTHAWK Chordeiles virginianus virginianus (Ginclin) A. O. U. Number 420 See Color Plates 65 Other Names.— Goatsucker of Carolina; Bull-bat; Mosquito Hawk; Will-o'-the-Wisp; Pisk; Piramidig; Long-winged Goatsucker. General Description.—Length, lo inches. Plumage, a variegation of black, gray, brown, and buf=f; ifhitc patch oil wing. Tail, cmargiiiatc. Color.—Adult Male: Prevailing color of upper parts, sooty-black, very faintly glossed with greenish, much broken by irregular spotting, marbling, and streaks of buff, pale buffy-gray, and whitish, the black greatly predominating on crown, where the sparse markings are irregularly spot-like and buff, and on back where the markings are smaller, in form of irregular narrow bars or streaks ; hindneck with buff spots larger, more regularly drop-shaped, forming indication of a broken collar; wing-coverts with rather large and numerous irregular spots of pale buffy- grayisli or dull grayish-white, in addition to smaller irregular streaks and marblings, mostly of a more huffy hue ; primary coverts, primaries, and outer greater coverts, dull grayish-black, the last margined terminally with pale grayish, the primaries passing into a more grayish hue at tips, the sixth, seventh, and eighth (sometimes ninth also) crossed a little in front of middle, by a broad, sharply defined, space of white, this involving the full width of both webs, as well as the shaft itself; tail, dull grayish-black or dusky, crossed by bands of paler (mostly buffy-grayish and dull grayish-white) marblings and spottings, and crossed by an interrupted broader band of. white; region around eyes and sides of head, sooty-black streaked or longitudinally flecked with buffy, cinnamon, or rusty (sometimes nearly plain blackish), the cheeks similar but spotted with buffy; chin, upper and middle part of throat, and span below ears, immaculate white, forming a conspicuous V-shaped jiatch ; lowe
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