. Birds of village and field: a bird book for beginners . htly to oneside: . . the female acted as timid and bashfulas many young maidens would when receivingthe first declarations of their would-be lovers,while the lowering of her head might easily beinterpreted as being done to hide her blushes. The Whip-poor-will lays its eggs on the groundor leaves. The mother bird shows great distressif disturbed when young are in the nest. A cor-respondent of Major Bendires says that sheflies or rather flops about the intruder in a circle,often alighting to tumble about upon the groundamong the leaves, s
. Birds of village and field: a bird book for beginners . htly to oneside: . . the female acted as timid and bashfulas many young maidens would when receivingthe first declarations of their would-be lovers,while the lowering of her head might easily beinterpreted as being done to hide her blushes. The Whip-poor-will lays its eggs on the groundor leaves. The mother bird shows great distressif disturbed when young are in the nest. A cor-respondent of Major Bendires says that sheflies or rather flops about the intruder in a circle,often alighting to tumble about upon the groundamong the leaves, spreading the tail and openingthe mouth, at the same time emitting a soundsomething like the cry or whine of a very youngpuppy, and also other guttural, uncouth sounds,wholly indescribable, the young themselves, intheir scanty dress of dark yellow fuzz, apparentlyall mouth, adding to the general effect. Besidesbeing very interesting birds. Doctor Fisher saysthat they are most useful, eating ants, grasshop-pers, June bugs, and potato bugs. 188 NJGHTHAWK. Nighthawk : Chordeiles virginianus. Male, upper parts blackish, marked with brown ; under partswhitish, barred with black; throat white; icings and tail withconspicuous white hands. Female, no white on tail, and throatbuffy. Length, 10 inches. Geographic Distribution. — Eastern North America; breedsfrom the Gulf states to Labrador ; winters in South America. Like the Whip-poor-will, the Nighthawk is cre-puscular, flying mainlyin the dusky margins ofthe clay. The two birdslook much alike, but theNighthawk has a whitethroat instead of a nar-row white line on a blackthroat, and in the skyshows white bands on itscrescent-like warm summer evenings you may often see one or more coursing over the meadows, getting their food on the wing. They live largely on flies, mosquitoes, grass-hoppers, and crickets; and one bird was found with 573 large-winged ants in its stomach, in ajddition to parts of 72 small-winged ants and 16 gras
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