. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley . GOATSUCKERS 227 buflF, or gray, profusely blotched or speckled with blackish, brownish gray,and lavender. Food. — Insects, such as flies, ants, mosquitoes, small beetles, grasshop-pers, crickets, and moths. The three forms of virginianus resemble each other so closely inhabit and appearance that they are difficult to distinguish except inthe hand. Their distribution is little help in determining them exceptduring the breeding season when serinetti retires to t
. Handbook of birds of the western United States, including the great plains, great basin, Pacific slope, and lower Rio Grande valley . GOATSUCKERS 227 buflF, or gray, profusely blotched or speckled with blackish, brownish gray,and lavender. Food. — Insects, such as flies, ants, mosquitoes, small beetles, grasshop-pers, crickets, and moths. The three forms of virginianus resemble each other so closely inhabit and appearance that they are difficult to distinguish except inthe hand. Their distribution is little help in determining them exceptduring the breeding season when serinetti retires to the Dakotas ; forat other times henri/i and sennetti range together from Dakota toTexas ; and even in the breeding season the eastern form makes irreg-ular irruptions into the range of the western. The nighthaw^ks, while wholly absorbed in their own aerial pur-suits, nevertheless beguile many an hour for the weary wayfarer inthe west. As the ambulance-like hack or prairie schooner makesits slow way over the hot bare plains, the traveler hails with delightthe sight of the little black stick lying on the ground in the midstof the
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