. Handbook of birds of the western United States including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley . Indies. Eggs. — Deposited on dry leaves on the ground; 2, white, with blotches,spots, and tracings of brown and purple. Food. — Night-flying insects, including Rocky Mountain locusts. 417a. A. V. macromystax (Wagler). Stephens Whip-poor-will. Adult male. — Similar to A. vociferus, but slightly larger and moretawny, throat band largely tawny in adidt male, and white of tail re-stricted to less than terminal third. Adult female: similar, but white oftail tawny an
. Handbook of birds of the western United States including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley . Indies. Eggs. — Deposited on dry leaves on the ground; 2, white, with blotches,spots, and tracings of brown and purple. Food. — Night-flying insects, including Rocky Mountain locusts. 417a. A. V. macromystax (Wagler). Stephens Whip-poor-will. Adult male. — Similar to A. vociferus, but slightly larger and moretawny, throat band largely tawny in adidt male, and white of tail re-stricted to less than terminal third. Adult female: similar, but white oftail tawny and restricted. Length: , wing , tail Distribution. — Arizona, New Mexico, and southwestern Texas; southover mountains bordering tablelands of Mexico to Guatemala. Nest. — A slight depression in the ground. Eggs: 1 or 2, white, orwith faint markings. Food. — Among other things, large brown beetles. When we were spending a night in the head of McKittrick canyonin the Guadalupe Mountains, Stephens whip-poor-wills came closeenough to our camp-fire for us to hear distinctly the marked burr of. 224 GOATSUCKERS their wMp-puriW-idU. Sometimes the notes are repeated faster andfaster till they all run together. In the Santa Catalina Mountains, Arizona, Mr. Bailey found onesitting in the shade of a rock in the daytime. At his approach,with a quick spring it would dart out of sight around the next rockand drop into the darkest shade. Its flight was perfectly noiselessand very swift. GENUS PHAL^NOPTILUS. General Characters. — Bill short with wide gape, nostrils tubular, cylin-drical, opening forward and outward ; rietal bristles conspicuous ; feetsmall, hind toe short, middle toe long, its claw pectinated, front toeswebbed (see Fig. 290) ; tarsus as long as middle toe without claw, nakedexcept for joint; tail square, much shorter than wings.
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