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rested upon a stone where nothing was before. It 

 seemed rat-Hke, and crept slowly toward the water, at 

 the edge of which it stopped and drank. Then it took 

 to wing and flew in low circles back and forth. This 



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RIDGWAY WHIP-POOR-WILL 



was the author of the mysterious monotone, which even- 

 ing after evening had held our attention and excited 

 our curiosity. And even wdien we had secured a speci- 

 men and learned the name of the bird, it Avas but to 

 unfold another mystery. It was the Ridgway Whip- 

 poor-will, the second of its kind ever discovered. The 

 first was observed several hundred miles south of our 



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