Bill feeble, gape extending to beneath the posterior angle of the eye. Nostrils elliptical, prominent. Wings long, pointed, the second quill longest; tail long. Claw of middle toe pectinate. Along the base of the bill on each side, a series of feathers having very strong shafts, terminating in an elastic filamentous point, and with the barbs or lateral filaments extremely slender, distant, and not extended beyond the middle of the shaft. Plumage very soft and blended. Wings long and pointed, the second quill longest; tail long, rounded. 41. 1. Caprimulgus Carolinensis, Gmel. Carolina Goatsucker.--Chuck-will's-widow. Plate LII. Male and Female. Bristles with lateral filaments; tail slightly rounded. Head and back dark brown, minutely mottled with yellowish-red, and longitudinally streaked with black; three bands of the latter colour, from the lower mandible diverging along the head; a yellowish-white line over the eye; wings barred with yellowish-red and brownish-black, and minutely sprinkled with the latter colour, as are the wing-coverts, which, together with the scapulars, are largely spotted with black, and tinged with grey; tail similarly barred and dotted; terminal half of the inner webs of the three outer feathers white, their extremities light red; lower parts dull reddish-yellow, sprinkled with dusky; a band of whitish feathers barred with black on the fore neck. Female like the male, but without white on the tail. _Male_, 12-3/4, 26. _Female_, 13-1/4, 30. From Texas to North Carolina. Up the Mississippi to Natchez. Resident in the Floridas. Chuck-will's-widow, Caprimulgus Carolinensis, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. vi. p. 95. Caprimulgus Carolinensis, Bonap. Syn. p. 61. Chuck-will's-widow, Caprimulgus Carolinensis, v. i. p. 612. Chuck-will's-widow, Caprimulgus Carolinensis, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. i. p. 273; v. v. p. 401. 42. 2. Caprimulgus vociferus, Wils. Whip-poor-will Goatsucker. Bristles without lateral filaments; tail much rounded. General colour of upper parts dark brownish-grey, streaked and minutely sprinkled with brownish-black; quills and coverts dark brown, spotted in bars with light brownish-red; four middle tail-feathers like those of the back, the three lateral white in their terminal half; throat and breast similar to the back, with a transverse band of white on the fore neck, the rest of the lower parts paler and mottled. Female like the male, but with the lateral tail-feathers reddish-white toward the tip only, and the band across the fore neck pale yellowish-brown. _Male_, 9-1/2, 19. _Female._ From Texas to Lake Huron, and the base of the Rocky Mountains. A few remain in winter in Florida. Whip-poor-will, Caprimulgus vociferus, Wils. Amer. Orn. v. v. p. 71. Caprimulgus vociferus, Bonap. Syn. p. 62. Whip-poor-will, Caprimulgus vociferus, Aud. Orn. Biog. v. i. p. 422; v. v. p. 405.