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duflc ofthe evening, fitting on a dead branch, with the head 

 lowermoft,.for what end not known; the other fuppofed to be 

 a call of love, as it is obferved to utter it when in purfuit of 

 the female. The laft makes no neft, but lays her eggs on the 

 bare ground, or loofe crag, without feeming care. They are 

 ufually two in number, of a dufky white, blotched with blueifh. 

 brown. She is faid alfo to move the eggs to a more fecure place, 

 if at any time they are difturbed. It has been obferved that the 

 bird perches lengthwife * on the branch, not acrofs, as moft 

 birds are known to do. 



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Caprimulgus Europaeus 0. Lin. Syfi. i. p. 346. wro °j K „. ^ 



Tette-chevre de Virgmie, Brif. orn. 11. p, 477. N° 3. 



Whip-poor-will, Buf. oif. vi. p. 534. — Catejb. Car. vol. iii. pi. 16.— Edtv. ii. 

 pi. 63. — Kalm Trav. ii. p. 151. — Ar8. Zool. 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



HP HIS is lefs than our fpeciesj and only eight inches in Description. 



length. The bill to the gape nine lines and a half, and 

 befet with briftles : all the upper parts of the body are of a dull 

 brown, tranfverfely variegated and blended with rufous brown, with 

 here and there a mixture of afn-colour, and a little portion of grey 

 on the wings : above the eyes on each fide, and behind the neck, 

 a few orange fpots : under the eyes cinereous brown : on the 

 chin a white triangular fpot, mottled with orange at the under 

 part ; the reft of the parts beneath reddifh white, crofied with 

 dufky ftreaks : quills dufky ; the five firft marked about the 

 middle with a fpot of whire, occupying both webs, except on 



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