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white tent. At any rate one of them sat in the top of this 

 little juniper from nine o'clock until one. It seemed to me 

 that he "whipped-poor-will" constantly all this time. The 

 notes are not objectionable and are interesting to listen to 

 for a few minutes at a time, but four hours of continuous 

 performance was too much for me, especially as the per- 

 former was within twenty feet. I went out and gathered 

 a few stones ; as the first one went by he evidently though 

 it some species of moth for he darted after it the same as 



Fig. 39. TREE SWALLOW. 

 These sicallons nest in hollow trees or in bird boxes. 



bats do if anything is thrown up in front of them, and 

 then returned to the tree top and "whip-poor-willed" again. 

 The next stone crashed through the tree below^ him and I 

 saw his shadowy form flit overhead across the like where 

 his calls so"on mingled with others of his kind and I was 

 left undisturbed by them for the balance of the night. 



