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tures in this country: fince our conqueft of 

 America, many have been brought alive to 

 England. 



The Whip-poor-will, or Lesser Goat- 

 Sucker. 



The following account Mr. Catefby received 

 with thefe birds from a Gentleman in America : 



" They come to Virginia about the middle 

 of April, from which time, to the end of June, 

 they are heard every night, beginning about 

 dufk, and continuing till break of day \ but it 

 is chiefly in the upper or weftern parts that they 

 are fo frequent : I never heard but one in the 

 maritime parts \ but near the mountains in the 

 month of May, within a few minutes after 

 funfet, they begin, and make fo very loud and 

 fhrill a noife all night, that the ecchoes from 

 the mountains increafe to fuch a degree, that the 

 firft time I lodged there I could hardly fleep : 

 they are feldom feen in the day-time. The In- 

 dians imagine thefe birds are the fouls of their 

 anceflors formerly flaughtered by the Englifli, 



and 



