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the middle ones ; the tail of the Whip-poor-will was rounded , 
the exterior feathers being the shortest, lengthening gradually 
to the middle ones. 
ct After a careful examination of these and several other 
remarkable differences, it was impossible to withstand the 
conviction, that these birds belonged to two distinct species of 
the same genus, differing in size, colour, and conformation of 
parts. 
i( A statement of the principal of these facts having been 
laid before Mr Bartram, together with a male and female of 
each of the above mentioned species, and also a male of the 
great Virginian Bat, or Chuck-wilPs-widow, after a particular 
examination, that venerable naturalist was pleased to declare 
himself fully satisfied ; adding, that he had now no doubt of 
the Night Hawk and the Whip-poor-will being two very 
distinct species of Caprimulgus . 
C£ It is not the intention of the writer of this to enter at 
present into a description of either the plumage, manners, 
migrations, or economy of these birds, the range of country 
they inhabit, or the superstitious notions entertained of them ; 
his only object at present is the correction of an error, which, 
from the respectability of those by whom it was unwarily 
adopted, has been but too extensively disseminated, and 
received by too many as a truth.” 
RED OWL STRIX ASIO. — Plate XLIL Fig. 1. female. 
Little Owl, Catesb. i. 7 Lath. i. 123 Linn. Syst. 132. — Arct. Zool. ii. No. 117. 
— Turton Syst. i. p. 166. — Leak's Museum , No. 428. 
S TRIX ASIO . — Linnteus. — young. -* 
Strix asio, Bonap. Synop. p. 36. 
This is another of our nocturnal wanderers, well known 
by its common name, the Little Screech Owl ; and noted for 
its melancholy quivering kind of wailing in the evenings, 
* See Vol. I. for description of the adult of this species, and Note. 
