NIGHT HAWK 



rather tremulous voice, and can be heard a long 

 distance, the call from a distant bird sounds like 

 ah-reo . ' ' (Richmond . ) 



2. Chordeiles virginianus virginianus (Gmelin) 

 Night Hawk 



Length, 242 mm. (9.50 in.); tail, 112 mm. 

 (4.40 in.). 



Male. Above mottled black, brown, gray and 

 tawny, black prevailing; outer wing quills crossed 

 by a broad white band ; tail blackish with grayish 

 marbled cross bars and crossed by a broad inter- 

 rupted white subterminal band; the throat with 

 a V-shaped patch of white, lower throat and chest 

 with spots of buffy or white, the remaining under- 

 parts regularly barred buffy whitish and dusky. 



Female. Similar to male but the V-shaped 

 patch on throat more or less tawny instead of 

 white and the white subterminal band of tail 

 lacking. 



Young. Similar to female but without well 

 defined white throat patch. 



Wings long and narrow, tail slightly notched 

 or emarginate. 



A migrant or winter visitor from North 

 America. Less nocturnal than many members 

 of the family. It migrates by day in straggling 

 flocks, flying at a moderate height, feeding as it 

 goes on insects that it catches in the air. On 

 cloudy days or toward evening it may often be 

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