s 
S. 
Pickens Oo. 
So. Carolina 
On a sultry night last month, Mrs. A. H. 
Ellsworth, of Jackson Hollow, was awakened 
by the dapping of wings at one of the windows 
of her bedroom. She struck a light and 
found that a female Whip-poor-will had got 
wedged in between the screen and the sash, 
that the bird was unable to free herself, and 
that one of her wings was broken. Mrs. 
Ellsworth took pity on the wounded bird, 
bound up the broken wing as well as she knew 
how, and placed her in a canary bird’s cage 
for the night. 
In the morning Mrs. Ellsworth found that 
the Whip-poor-will, with the exception of the 
broken wing, was all right, and she fed the 
bird and hung the cage on the porch, intend- 
ing to set her free as soon as she was able to 
dy. During the morning the Whip-poor-will 
sang 'out a number of times, and along in the 
forenoon Mrs. Ellsworth noticed that another 
Whip-poor-will was ditting around the cage. 
She concluded that the wounded bird had suc- 
ceeded in calling her mate from a row of 
willows down by the creek, and her conclusion 
proved to be correct. 
The male Whip-poor-will alighted on the 
rim of the cage, and coaxed like a good fellow 
for his wife to come out and sail away with 
him to their home among the willows, and 
then they put their bills together between the 
wires and had a real sweet domestic kissing 
spell for three or four minutes, the wife seem- 
ing to convey to her anxious husband an 
understanding of the fact that she would be 
delighted to accompany him if she only had 
two well wings. Anyhow, the male appeared 
to understand pretty soon that his wife was a 
cripple, and in prison, too, for when they had 
kissed one another all they cared to just 
then, the male flew away toward the brook. 
In a littlewhile he returned with his bill full 
of food, which he liberally dealt out to his 
wife from his perch on the rim of the cage. It 
tasted better to her than the food that Mrs. 
Ellsworth had put into the cage, Mrs. Ells- 
worth said, and during the day he came and 
went a score of times. Mrs. Ellsworth left the 
cage out all night, so that the wife might be 
as near to her husband as possible, and the 
male roosted on a lilac bush close by. He 
carried lots of food to his wife each day, and 
in about a fortnight her wing got well. Then 
Mrs. Ellsworth turned her loose. Her mate 
joined her immediately, and the happy paii 
sailed off toward the willows, singing a song 
of gladness on the way. — Dayton (Dayton) 
Daily Journal. 
20 Antrostomus vociferus. Wme-eooR-wiLL.-In the neighborhood 
of the house where I stayed the characteristic notes of the Whip-pooi -w 
greeted the ear nightly. It did not appear to t 1 ’ 
however. S. Carolina. Loomia. Auk, Vll. Jan.i890.p. SIT 
,T, he Oologist. 1572. Whip-poor-will. By H. A. Koch. Ibid., p. 23. Auk,Vll. Jan. 1890 . 
516. [ Whippoorwill ]. By W. L. Scott. Ibid . , II, 138, 139. — Its nest- 
ing and range in Canada. 
C ten* Sport, ^naturalist 
