. Key to North American birds [microform] : 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. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. CAPRIMULGIDJE — CAPRIMULGINJE: TRUE GOATSUCKERS. 451 Analytis of Speciei. Large: rlcUl bristles garnished with lateral fliumeiits. Tail with large whole-colored spaces in S only (Antroatomus proper) carolinenaia 396 Small: rictal bristles simple. Tail with white spacea in both sexes (Caprimulgus.') .... vociferua 397 3i>6, A. c
. Key to North American birds [microform] : 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. Birds; Ornithology; Oiseaux; Ornithologie. CAPRIMULGIDJE — CAPRIMULGINJE: TRUE GOATSUCKERS. 451 Analytis of Speciei. Large: rlcUl bristles garnished with lateral fliumeiits. Tail with large whole-colored spaces in S only (Antroatomus proper) carolinenaia 396 Small: rictal bristles simple. Tail with white spacea in both sexes (Caprimulgus.') .... vociferua 397 3i>6, A. carolinen'sis. (Lat. Carolinian.) Chuck-WILL's-widow. The rictal bristles with lateral filaments. Singularly variegated witli black, white, brown, tawny, and rufous, tho prevailing tone fulvous ; a whitish or tawny throat-bar; several lateral tail-feathers with large whole-colored space in the ^, all variegated in the 9- Adult ^ : Taking dark wood-browu as the ground color of the upper parts, this is heavily dashed with black, lengthwise on tho crown in large pattern, elsewhere similar in smaller style, everywhere minutely punctulated. Fio. 293. — WhippoorwiU, } nat. 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, white viewed from above, tawny seen from below (a curious difference, which has caused some cfuifusion in descriptions of the sexes of this bird) ; their outer webs mottled with black and tawny. Primaries black, fully mottled with broken-up tawiiy-reddish cross-bars. General tone of tho under parts ochraceous, becoming quite so posteriorly, with pronounced tendency to black cross-waves. Length
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