332 NIGHTHAWKS AND WHIP-POOR-WILLS 
about two inches from corner to corner. For this reason it can swal- 
low large objects with ease, and both Hummingbirds and Sparrows 
have been found in the Chuck- will’s- widow’s stomach. Possibly they 
were mistaken for large moths, but Gerald Thayer records a 
Chuck-will’s-widow which, following a steamer off the Carolina 
coast, was seen to pursue and catch Warblers on the wing. {Auk. 
1899, pp. 273-276.) 
417. Antrostomus voeiferus voeiferus {Wils.). Whip-poor-will. 
Ad. <?.— Upperparts streaked with black, the head finely mottled with black 
and white, the back mottled with ochraceous-buff and black; primaries 
black, with broken rufous bars; tail irregularly barred with black and mot- 
Fig. 94. Whip-poor-will. 
tied with whitish or cream-buff; end half of three outer feathers white; 
black on the outer vane of the outer feather extending farther down than 
on the others; throat and breast blackish, finely mottled with cream-buff 
or ochraceous-buff; a narrow white band across the upper breast; belly 
cream-buff, irregularly barred with blackish; base of the bill beset with 
long, stiffened bristles, which are without hairlike branches. Ad. $. — Sim- 
ilar, but outer three tail-feathers narrowly tipped with ochraceous-buff; 
band on the throat cream-buff instead of white. L., 9*75 ; W., 6'08; T., 
4*65; B., *37. 
Range. — E. N. Am. Breeds from Man., s. Que., N. B., and N. S., s. 
to n. parts of La., Miss., and Ga., and from e. N. D., Nebr., and Kans. 
eastward; winters from the lowlands of S. C. and the s. parts of the Gulf 
States to British Honduras and Salvador. 
Washington, common S. R., Apl. 13-Oct. 13. Ossining, common S. R., 
Apl. 19-Oct. 17. Cambridge, formerly S. R., now chiefly T. V., Apl. 30- 
Sept. 20. N. Ohio, locally common S. R., Apl. 29-Sept. 15. Glen Ellyn, 
rare, spring records only, Apl. 19-May 21. SE. Minn., common S. R., Apl. 
17-Sept. 28. 
Eggs , 2, laid on the ground or leaves, in woods or thickets; dull white, 
with delicate, obscure lilac markings and a few distinct brownish gray spots, 
