. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds . PLATE XXX. — PLATE XXXL —Whip-poor-will. BIRDS OF THE AIR. 341 NIGHTHAWKS, WHIP-POOR-WILLS, ETC. Birds of this family are especially fitted for the cap-ture of flying insects. Their beaks are small and Aveak, buttheir mouths are very capacious, their gullets are large, andtheir stomachs enormous. Some species fly high over opencountry; others live mainly in the wo
. Useful birds and their protection. Containing brief descriptions of the more common and useful species of Massachusetts, with accounts of their food habits, and a chapter on the means of attracting and protecting birds . PLATE XXX. — PLATE XXXL —Whip-poor-will. BIRDS OF THE AIR. 341 NIGHTHAWKS, WHIP-POOR-WILLS, ETC. Birds of this family are especially fitted for the cap-ture of flying insects. Their beaks are small and Aveak, buttheir mouths are very capacious, their gullets are large, andtheir stomachs enormous. Some species fly high over opencountry; others live mainly in the woods. Together withthe Owls and Bats the}^ form a night police for the controlof nocturnal insects. Our two common species, the Xighthawk and the Whip-poor-will, are frequently confounded; l)ut in appearance,habits, and color of eggs thev are so difierent that this mistakecould not be made except hy the most superficial observer. Nighthawk. Bull virginianus virginianus. Length. — Nine to ten inches. Adult Male. — Above, black, gray, and tawny, mixed and mottled; wings longand narrow, crossed by a broad white bar which shows best in flight; tailslightly forked or notched, all except the two middle tail feathers crossedn
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