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about two inches from corner to corner. For this reason it can swal- 

 low large objects with ease, and both Hummingbirds and Sparrows 

 have been found in the Chuck-wilFs-widow's stomach. Possibly they 

 were mistaken for large moths, but Gerald Thayer records a 

 Chuck-will's-widow which, following a steamer off the Carolina 

 coast, was seen to pursue and catch Warblers on the wing. (Auk. 

 1899, pp. 273-276.) 



417. Antrostomus vociferus vociferus (Wils.). WHIP-POOR-WILL. 

 Ad. <?. Upperparts streaked with black, the head finely mottled with black 

 and white, the back mottled with ochraceous-buff and black; primaries 

 black, with broken rufous bars; tail irregularly barred with black and mot- 



FIG. 94. Whip-poor- will. 



tied with whitish or cream-buff; end half of three outer feathers while; 

 black on the outer vane of the outer feather extending farther down than 

 on the others; throat and breast blackish, finely mottled with cream-buff 

 or ochraceous-buff; a narrow white band across the upper breast; belly 

 cream-buff, irregularly barred with blackish; base of the bill beset with 

 long, stiffened bristles, which are without hairlike branches. Ad. 9. Sim- 

 ilar, but outer three tail-feathers narrowly tipped with ochraceous-buff; 

 band on the throat cream-buff instead of white. L., 9'75; W., 6'08; T., 

 4-65; B., '37. 



Range. E. N. Am. Breeds from Man., s. Que., N. B., and N. S., s. 

 to n. parts of La., Miss., and Ga., and from e. N. D., Nebr., and Kans. 

 eastward; winters from the lowlands of S. C. and the s. parts of the Gulf 

 States to British Honduras and Salvador. 



Washington, common S. R., Apl. 13-Oct. 13. Ossining, common S. R., 

 Apl. 19-Oct. 17. Cambridge, formerly S. R., now chiefly T. V., Apl. 30- 

 Sept. 20. N. Ohio, locally common S. R., Apl. 29-Sept. 15. Glen Ellyn, 

 rare, spring records only, Apl. 19-May 21. SE. Minn., common S. R., Apl. 

 17-Sept. 28. 



Eggs, 2, laid on the ground or leaves, in woods or thickets; dull white, 

 with delicate, obscure lilac markings and a few distinct brownish gray spots, 



