CATALOGUE OF VERTEBRATES. 52S 



"Although a migratory species, a few not unfrequently remain 

 throughout the winter, and seem to find a sufficiency of food 

 when the streams are frozen. It appears in numbers as early as- 

 February, if the weather is moderate, and seldom wanders far 

 from fishing-grounds. Is an inoffensive species, except in the 

 destruction of young pike." 



Order CYPSELI. 



(MACF=IOCHIRES.) 



Family CAPRIMULGIDiE. 



Ooatsnckers. 



ANTROSTOMUS, Gould. 



A. vociferus, Wils. Whip-poor-will. Night Jar. 



Grayish, much variegated ; " the mouth is margined by enor- 

 mous stiff bristles more than an inch long ; the wings are short,, 

 not reaching the end of the tail, which is very broad and 

 rounded. There are bars of rufous spots on the wing quills, but 

 no white whatever. The tail is white beneath for its terminal 

 half" in males, tawny in females. Length, 10 inches; tail, 5- 

 inches. Do not confound this with the next species. 



" Migratory and in the extreme sections of the State, only, 

 abundant. Their nests are shallow scooped holes in the dead 

 leaves, two eggs being deposited. The food is exclusively in- 

 sects. Habits nocturnal. Strictly inoffensive." 



CHORDBILB3, Swains. 



(Popetue— Abbott's Catalogue.) 



C. virginianus, Gmel. Night Hawk. Bull Bat. 



Blackish, variegated ; a V-shaped blotch on throat — white in 

 male, tawny in female ; " the bristles of the bill are scarcely ap- 

 preciable ; the wings are sharp-pointed, longer than the tail, uni- 

 formly brown, with a broad spot of white across the middle of 

 the long quills, and without any rufous spots. The tail is rather 



