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the firft, in which it is feen only on the inner :- tail not unlike 

 the quills •, the two outer feathers marked with a fpot of whits- 

 near the end : legs flefh-colour ; middle claw ferratech 

 Place. This fpecies inhabits Virginia in fummer ■, arrives there to- 



wards the middle of April, and frequents the mountainous parts,., 

 but will frequently approach the houfes of evenings, where it 

 fettles on a rail or poft, and cries for feveral times together very 

 loud, fomewhat like the word whiperiwhifi, or whip -poor-will, 

 the firft and Lift fyllables pronounced the loudeft. After conti- 

 nuing in one place for fome time, it flies to another,, and does 

 the fame ; fometimes four or five cry all together : this noife it-: 

 begins juft after fun-fet,.and continues at intervals till juft before 

 fun-rife. It does not catch infe<5ts always on the wing,, for it: 

 frequently fits upon a convenient place,, and leaps up after them 

 as they fly by, and returns to the fame fpot again. It makes no 

 neft, but lays the eggs, which are two in number, and of a dull 

 green with dufky fpots and ftreaks,. on the bare ground in. the 

 open fields. The flefli is faid to be good to eat *. 



7- 

 WHITE- 

 THROATED G. 



Description. T ENGTH ten inches and a quarter. Bill brown, with' a 

 black tip i noftrils rather prominent : plumage rufous 

 brown, dotted with black : head ftreaked with the black : upper 

 part of the body the fame, but more obfeure: the fcapulars, and 

 moft of the outer wing coverts, have a black band near the end, 

 and the tips yellowifh buff: leffer quills fpotted with rufous 

 cream-colour on the outer web j the greater dufky black, croffed 



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