. 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 . Fig. 292. — Head and foot of Whippoorwill, nat. size(Adnat. del. R. Ridgway.) CAPBIMULGID^—CAFRIMULGIN^: TRUE GOATSUCKERS. 451 Analysis of : rictaJ bristles garnished
. 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 . Fig. 292. — Head and foot of Whippoorwill, nat. size(Adnat. del. R. Ridgway.) CAPBIMULGID^—CAFRIMULGIN^: TRUE GOATSUCKERS. 451 Analysis of : rictaJ bristles garnished with lateral filaments. Tail with large whole-colored spaces in 6 only {Antrostomtis proper) carolirumsis 396 Small: rictal bristles simple. Tail with white spaces in both sexes (Caprimulgus ?) .... vociferus 397 396. A., carolinensis. (Lat. Caroliniau.) Chuck-wills-widow. The rictal bristles withlateral filaments. Singularly variegated with black, white, brown, tawny, and rufous, theprevailing tone fulvous ; a whitish or tawny throat-bar; several lateral tail-feathers with largewhole-colored space in the $, all variegated in the 9 • Adult ^ : Taking dark wood-brownas the ground color of the upper parts, this is heavily dashed with black, lengthwise on thecrown in large pattern, elsewhere similar in smaller style, everywhere minutely punctulated. Fig. 293. — Whippoorwill, J nat. size. (From Brehm. Tail not rounded enough.) with ochrey and gray, as if dusted over; wing-coverts and inner quills more boldly varied withblack centre-fields and tawny or whitish edgings of the feathers. Four middle tail-featherssingularly 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-coloredspaces, tvhite viewed from above, tawny seen from below (a curious difference, which hascaused some confusion in descriptions of the sexes of this bird) ; their outer webs mottled withblack an
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