WHIP-POOR-WILL — NIGHT-HAWK. 315 



With beak black, and bent at the tip ting'd with white ; 

 With an eye that commands both the day and the 



night ; 

 With wing nervous, expansive, and tint of black -brown ; 

 With legs and feet squamous, carunculate crown ; 

 Throat naked ; back dark ; and with claws black and 



strong ; 

 Evincing the signs that to power belong ; — 

 Of the mountainous desert the lord, in whom fear 

 And imperial command both united appear ; — 

 He look'd round from his Rock, over sea, over shore, 

 And over the Dell too — that proud Zumeadore. 



beset with long, thick, elastic bristles; plumage above varie- 

 gated with black, pale cream-brown, and rust-colour ; back 

 darker ; breast and belly mottled, and streaked black and 

 yellow ochre. Eggs two, marbled with dark olive. Inhabits 

 many parts of North America, most plentifully in Kentuckey. 

 The notes of this bird are similar to the words whip-poor-will, 

 whence it has obtained its name; it is heard very often in the 

 night. Rarely seen during the day, unless attendant on its 

 young. Feeds on moths, grass-hoppers, and insects. In Penn- 

 sylvania it is a migratory bird, proceeding to the South in 

 winter. — Wilson. 



Waterton says that the goat-suckers of South America 

 perch longitudinally on trees, and not crosswise like other 

 birds ; this is also stated by Wilson in regard to the Americanus, 

 or Night-Hawk, called in Virginia, and some of the Southern 

 districts of the American States, a Bat. 



According to Wilson, the only goat-suckers found in the 

 United States are the preceding, Whip-poor-will ; the 

 Carolinensis, or Chuck-wills-widow; and the Americanus, or 

 Night-Hawk, which is, I believe, the same as the Virginianus, 

 described above ; these are all migratory birds. 



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