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NAME- Whip-Poor-Will A.Q.U.NO. 417 



( Antrostomus vocif erus ) ** 



DATE - May 9, 1935 

 NO. - 2 



INCUBATION - Fresh 

 1.09 x 0.79 



SIZES - 



1.05 x 0.77 



SITUATION - The nest of this lovely bird 

 was accidently found when I almost stepped on 

 her in a grove of second-growth hardwoods at 

 about fifty yards inside the edge of the trees 

 The female literally flitted away silently in 

 an erratic line of flight and totally dis- 

 appeared . 



There were no nesting materials; 

 the two fresh, elliptical, slightly glossy, 

 pinkish-white eggs irregularly blotched and 

 spotted with light grays and tans were in a 

 small depression on bare oak leaves between 

 two trees which were about four feet apart. 



Near Dorchester, Va. - approxi- 

 mately eleven miles from Big Stone Gap. 



(Caprimulgus vocif erus) 



A.O.U. Checklist 1983 



