205 
1866, 
Augo 28, 
1867. 
Aug. 28, 
1868. 
July 28. 
1874. 
June 17. 
1875. 
June 16, 
1882 . 
July 7. 
Antrostomus vociferus, 
A male singing at dusk, and another singing the fol- 
lovring evening August 30 (West Amesbury ,Mass. ). 
Heard a male in full song (Amesbury,Mass,), 
One singing at Plymouth,New Hampshire. 
Shot one as it was singing on a fence post on the 
edge of the woods in the moonlight (Marston’s Mills,Mass.) 
Singing at the foot of Mt.Wauchusett, 
One singing everu evening on the vrooded knoll oppo¬ 
site the house. To-night it began earlier than usual 
mingling its emphatic notes with the songs of Wilson’s ' 
Thrushes and Savanna and White-throated Sparrows, It 
sings longest at first and, as the darkness deepens 
shortens its performance until finally only one or two 
“whippoorwills” are given at a time (Shelbourne, N. H.). 
W lile driving this evening I sav/ a Whippoorwill 
alight on the top bar of a board fence v;ithin twenty 
feet of me. It did not appear to notice me, but kept 
rolling Its head about, evidently looking for insects. 
At length it darted directly upward, evidently after a 
flying insect, then turned sharply and disappeared in 
the gloom of a birch grove behind. Its flight was moth- 
like and silent; its upward sailing reminded me of that 
of a Flycatcher. It was probably a female for I could 
see no white in the wide-spread tail, and a male was sing¬ 
ing meanwhile in the woods about a hundred yards off, 
I heard throe males this evening within the distance*of 
a mile. They are found hero in mixed woods of pines 
oaks, and birches (Sholbo'>rne, N. H. ). ’ 
