WHIP-POOR-WILL 



May 8, 1897 

 May 7, 1898 



(Lake Forest) 



I USED to hear these birds constantly 

 around our old farm at Winfield, and 

 once I think I saw two of them. But here 

 in Elmhurst I have never yet ( 1 895 ) heard 

 one. 



May 8, 1897. Kitty Pomeroy and I 

 started up a whip-poor-will in the ravine. 

 It lit on a branch near us, and sat there as 

 long as we wanted to look at it, and then 

 as we came near it flew off as silently as a 

 bat. In the evening we heard two answer- 

 ing each other in the thick woods. They 

 are plentiful here (later). 



May 77, /po/. One flew down on the 

 walk twenty ft. from where we were sit- 

 ting. He seemed to lie sidewise on the 

 path instead of perching, and after a min- 

 ute or two flitted silently away. 



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