WHIP-Poon-WILL. 
19 
The 
its species, tliongh it approaches nearer in 
tribe * Europe than any other of the 
spot of *■! 1*" h®i“g entirely without the large 
less Its **• wing ; and in being considerably 
different! ’ P^rticulai- caU, are also entirely 
folbwiu?/,,nt the history of this bird, the 
tiou;_BoX* ‘l™ time of dissec- 
of the wnniV+r"^'? ^t^ipt of the skin, less than that 
second stomach ’ i'‘'®“*tbone, one inch in length ; 
of pismires iml ***'*^i^ ™”®oular, tilled with fragments 
w-riK anXsc..XcfX'’i’T^i *'^i“ tl>e bird: loose, 
loose, extremely tendX'! XuX'tbin^*“!l^t"‘’ I 
and muscles of the winJ, feeble - 
taps of both mandibles, when exp’anXrfnll 
jongth of the opening,’oue inclXInd a ti^bV^dir 
skiuXfh‘‘ tongue, very short, attached to the 
up the hkdTead ’ «>• ^J/oMes, passes 
the woodnec' ei- and reaches to the front, like that of 
lower part oAh ’ enables the bii-d to revert the 
und in XlliX 1 ““i>e act of seizing insects, 
eyes; aperture fw *,®^''ffy.“®a'‘ly halt occupied by the 
not exceedincr that nf «'uall, the quantity 
extent of wiuo- in • ♦ i ®Pa''row ; an owl of the same 
mentioned by name ''Ld ‘its f *'''®‘l"®“‘iy 
hy almost everv inV.X i- ? “unners taken notice of 
birds, yet nersoXlIv XX*' i*®* written on our 
hy an/ wrker with never yet been described 
Extraordinarv as thi- '^^***® Works I am acquainted, 
and iu proof f ®®em, it is nevertheless true ; 
United Statos^t*^'* i found within the 
and the whin-nnlX^M? ^''^'**'®'"''dow, tlie night hawk, 
of his 2Vaiurcii a‘/vV^' in the eighth plate 
hrst, and in the has figured the 
>^0 this he has adde^X“* I-"^ *^* Appendix the second ; 
ned particulars of the whip-poor-will. 
