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rested upon a stone where nothing was before. It 

 seemed rat-hke, and crept slowly toward the water, at 

 the edge of which it stopped and drank. Then it took 

 to wino- and flew in low circles back and forth. This 



RIDGWAY WHIP-POOR-WILL 



was the author of the mysterious monotone, which even- 

 ino^ after evenincr had held our attention and excited 

 our curiosity. x\nd even when we had secured a speci- 

 men and learned the name of the bird, it was but to 

 unfold another mystery. It was the Ridgw^ay Whip- 

 poor-will, the second of its kind ever discovered. The 

 first was observed several hundred miles south of our 



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