. History of Vermont, natural, civil, and statistical, in three parts, with a new map of the state, and 200 engravings . nd sides of the headbrickvcolor; chin black with small brownspots ; a semi-circle of white across thethroat; breast and belly mottled and streak-ed with black and ochre ; bristles on thecheeks much longer than the bill; mid-dle claw pectinated ; female less than themale. Length £)£, spread 19.—JfutH History.—The Whip-poor-will arrivesin Vermont early in -May, and his plain-tive note is soon heard in the groves, along the streams and low lands in vari-ous parts of the state,
. History of Vermont, natural, civil, and statistical, in three parts, with a new map of the state, and 200 engravings . nd sides of the headbrickvcolor; chin black with small brownspots ; a semi-circle of white across thethroat; breast and belly mottled and streak-ed with black and ochre ; bristles on thecheeks much longer than the bill; mid-dle claw pectinated ; female less than themale. Length £)£, spread 19.—JfutH History.—The Whip-poor-will arrivesin Vermont early in -May, and his plain-tive note is soon heard in the groves, along the streams and low lands in vari-ous parts of the state, even up to thenorthern boundary. For a nest this birdmakes a slight excavation upon the sur-face of the dry ground, in the forest, usu-ally by the side of a rock, a log, or a pileof bushes; and, in this, about the 1st ofJune, the female lays two eggs, whichare of a bluish white color, thickly blotch-ed with dark olive. The young, likechickens, are able to run about and hidethemselves as soon as they are hatched ;and being without a nest, and very near-ly the color of the ground, they veryeasily escape THE NIGHT HAWK. Caprimulgus virginianus.—Brisson. Dksckiption.—General color dark liv-er brown, often with a greenish gloss;the head, neck, back, scapulars and tilingcoverts spotted with white, and yellow-ish brown ; quills of the wings brownishblack, with a broad bar of white acrossthe middle, above and below ; a broadsagittate spot of pure white on the throat,and white across the tail in the male ;under plumage and inner wing covertsmarked with alternate bars of dark liverbrown and yellowish white; wings swal-low-like, reaching a little beyond the tail;1st quill longest, 2d nearly as long; billblackish without bristles ; legs short, palebrown. Length \)h inches; spread 2:1 9 inches long, add color oehreyabout the head and throat. History.—The Night Hawk arrives inVermont in May, and is very common,during the summer, in all parts of thestate. They r
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