WHIP-POOR-WILL. 
America during the winter. Audubon 
relates that this bird applies its enormous 
mouth to rather an unexpected use, viz., 
that of removing its eggs, if it finds that 
they have been disturbed. Of this curious 
circumstance he was an eye-witness. He 
saw the bird, that first discovered that an 
intruder had touched the eggs, wait for its 
mate, and then saw each of them take an 
egg in its mouth and convey it off. 
