ippoorwill 
A Whippoorwill which has spent the entire summer 
in the woods just across the river from Ball's Hill is still 
there and of late has been singing almost as freely and 
quite as vigorously and well as he did in June. On the 
evening of September 6th, he was in full song for fifteen 
minutes,during which he once gave 157 repetitions of his 
notes without stopping for breath. This evening I counted 
48 repetitions of his cry without pause.4^t daybreak on 
the morning of the 3rd and at the same time on the following 
morning, this or another TThippoorwill fluttered several 
times about a head-net which was suspended over a bed in 
the open air in front of the wood-shed on Pir® Hill where 
Mr. For bush had spent the night. Mr. For bush thinks (that) 
the bird was picking off mosquitos that were buzzing 
about the net. He heard it snap or click its bill repeatedly 
and felt the fanning of its wings against his face. He 
also heard it eliT?k as it alighted with an audible thud 
on the ground near his bed; It came to the net several 
times on each occasion and after it had gone nearly all 
the mosquitos were gone, also. He thinks it sprang up 
from the ground to flutter about the net but on each 
occasion he was lying in such a position that he could not 
see it distinctly in the dim light. 
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