. A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. 'WHIP-POOU-WILL.' U15 ilso lays its eggs, two 1, and usually in the iprinkled with darker oybe handled, or even f danger, remove them the middle of August, from the U. Slates, nd i26 in alar extent. The r leas sprinkled and mottled le tail with /ig-xag and her- ,r«at a slight band of whit- ruginous, the belly and vent. -WILL.' V. p. 71. pi. 41. fig. 1,2, 3.) •ks much longer than the bill; half beyond the wings ; prima- ries chequered with dark spots. — Male, with the 3 outer tail- feathers white Bt th
. A manual of the ornithology of the United States and of Canada [microform]. Birds; Oiseaux. 'WHIP-POOU-WILL.' U15 ilso lays its eggs, two 1, and usually in the iprinkled with darker oybe handled, or even f danger, remove them the middle of August, from the U. Slates, nd i26 in alar extent. The r leas sprinkled and mottled le tail with /ig-xag and her- ,r«at a slight band of whit- ruginous, the belly and vent. -WILL.' V. p. 71. pi. 41. fig. 1,2, 3.) •ks much longer than the bill; half beyond the wings ; prima- ries chequered with dark spots. — Male, with the 3 outer tail- feathers white Bt the summits. — In the female tlie same part is pale ochreous, as well as the crescent line on tlie throat, remarkahle and well known nocturniil bird ar- rives in the Middio States about tlie close of April, or the beginning of May, and proceeds, in his vernal migra- tions along tiie Atlantic Stales, to liie centre of Massa- chusetts, being rare and seldom £aen beyond the latitude of 43° ; and yet in llie interior >.." ihe continent, accord- ing to Vieillotl, they continue as far as Hudson's bay, and were heard, as usual, by Mr. Say, at Penibino in the high latitude of 49°. In all this vast intermediate space, as far south as Natchez on the Mississippi, and the inte- rior of Arkansas, they familiarly breed and take up their temporary residence. In the eastern part of Massachu- setts, however, they are uncommon, and always alTect shel- tered, wild, and hilly situations. About the same time that the sweetly echoing voice of the Cuckoo is first heard in the north of Europe, issuing from the leafy groves, as the sure harbinger of the flowery month of May, amongst us, in the shades of night, the myste- rious * Whip-puor-wilL' The well known saddening sound is first only heard in the distant forest, reechoing from the lonely glen or rocky cliff; at length, the oft-told soli- tary tale is uttered from the fence of the adjoining field or garden, and sometim
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