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TALKS ABOUT BIRDS 



country by the noise it makes, which is a loud 

 purring, and sounds something like some sort 

 of machinery at work. Nightjars make all 

 sorts of queer noises, and the commonest 

 kind in India has a note which sounds exactly 

 like the noise a stone makes when you throw 



NIGHTJAR. 



it on ice and it skips and bounces along ; 

 and the bird in America which says " whip- 

 poor-will " is a nightjar. Nightjars live on 

 insects, which they catch on the wing like 

 swallows, and they must have very tough 

 insides to digest the big hard beetles with 

 which they stuff their stomachs, for though 



