94 THE WHIP-POOR-WILL. 



ORDER PASSERES. 



The Whip-poor-Will. 

 Caprimulgus Vocif'erus. 



WE follow the account of our own caprimulgus, 

 with a sketch of the habits of another singular 

 bird of the same tribe, found in North and South 

 America. For this purpose, we shall have 

 recourse to the volumes of Wilson, the American 

 ornithologist, who thus records the result of his 

 own personal observation of the peculiarity of the 

 Caprimulgus Vociferus : 



" This is a singular and very celebrated species, 

 universally noted over the greater part of the 

 United States, for the loud reiterations of his fa- 

 vourite call in spring ; and yet, personally, he is 

 but little known, most people being unable to 

 distinguish this from the other species ; and 

 some insisting that they are the same. 



On or about the twenty-fifth of April, if the 

 season be not uncommonly cold, the whip-poor- 

 will is first heard in Pennsylvania, in the even- 

 ing, as the dusk of twilight commences, or in the 

 morning, as soon as dawn has broken. The 



