WHIP-POOR-WILL. 
category of Nature’s music ; it is a perfectly rhythmical, 
metallic whistle which could be written out intelligibly 
by aseries of dashes, thus: 
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Whip-poorwill, Whip-poor-will Whip poor-will, Whip-poor will, Whip poormill, 
But these do not carry with them any idea of pitch, and 
so perfectly does the bird conform to pitch as well as 
rhythm, that one has no difficulty whatever in fixing, 
the key or the position of any one of the three tones, 
Here is an example of two distinct intervals of a fourth 
and an octave; it is perhaps the commonest form of the 
song ; 
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But no two birds sing exactly alike; listen and you will 
hear a distant bird respond in a lower key, with a lesser 
interval, and in slower time ; the form is fairly common ; 
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Then another individual very near at hand will consider 
this entirely too slow, and start in vigorously and viva- 
ciously, thus ; 
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