WHIP-POOR-WILL. 



417. Antrostomus vociferus. 9fy inches. 



Male with broad white tips to outer tail feathers; 

 female with narrow buffy tips. These birds are often 

 confounded with the Nighthawk but are very easily 

 distinguished by the long bristles from base of bill, the 

 black chin, the chestnut and black barred wing feath- 

 ers and the rounded tail. Whip-poor-wills are more 

 nocturnal than the Nighthawks and on moonlight 

 nights continue the whistled repetition of their name 

 throughout the night. They capture and devour a 

 great many of the large-bodied moths that are found 

 in the woods, but are never seen flying over cities like 

 the Nighthawks. 



Note. An emphatic and repeated whistling repe- 

 tition of Whip-poor-will, whip-poor-will. 



Nest. In June they lay two grayish or creamy 

 white eggs ( 1.15 x. 85) mottled with pale brown, gray 

 and lilac. These are deposited on the ground in woods. 



Range. East of the Plains, breeding from the Gulf 

 to Manitoba and New Brunswick. Winters south of 

 the United States. 



