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SWALLOW TRIBE 
This species, like most others, also lays its eggs, two 
in number, merely on the ground, and usually in the 
woods; they are of a dark olive, ^sprinkled with darker 
specs, oval, and rather large ; if they be handled, or even 
the young, the parents suspicious of danger, remove them 
to some other place. As early as the middle of August, 
according to Audubon, they retire from the U. States. 
This species is about 12 inches long, and 26 in alar extent. The 
whole body clothed with feathers more or less sprinkled and mottled 
with brown, rufous, black and white ; the tail with zig-zag and her- 
ring-bone figures of black. Across the throat a slight band of whit- 
ish, the breast black, powdered with ferruginous, the belly and vent 
lighter. 
‘WHIP-POOR-WILL.’ 
( Caprimulgus vociferus , Wilson, v. p. 71. pi. 41. fig, 1, 2, 3.) 
Sp. Charact. — Bristles on the cheeks much longer than the bill ; 
tail greatly rounded, reaching one half beyond the wings; prima- 
