hundred and thirty stomachs examined at Washington fifty-six per cent, 
was animal matter, thirty-nine per cent, vegetable, and five per cent, 
mineral. Two of them contained over three thousand ants each. Other 
insects were beetles, bugs, grasshoppers, crickets, caterpillars, May flies 
and white ants. 
WRlFFOORWlhL—i Antrostomus vociferus.) 
Male, upper parts brown, streaked with black; head finely mottled 
with black and white; a narrow white band across the throat; outer tail 
feathers white; a large mouth fringed with bristles. 
Female, similar but throat buffy instead of white; very little white on 
the tail. 
Length about ten inches. 
Arrival. May 7 to 20. 
Favorite Haunts. In the woods; flying about "at night. 
Field Marks. General color a grayish brown, having a white band 
across the neck and white outer tail feathers. 
Note. "Whip-poor-will" many times repeated. 
The whippoorwill is more often heard than seen. The distribution of 
this species is irregular, being common in some localities and rarely, if 
ever, seen in others. In Newfane the bird is very common, while in an 
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