. Western birds . COSTA HUMMINGBIRDS OX .NKSTS. WESTERN BIRDS Poor-wm Order Macrochires: Goatsuckers, Swifts,Hummingbirds, etc. Suborder Caprimulgi. GENUS ]N0PTILUS: HUMMING-BIRDS, GOATSUCKEES, ETC. Poor-Will: Phclcenoptilus nuttalli nuttalli. FAMILY—CAPRIMOLGIDtE: NIGHTHAWKS,WHIP-POOR-WILLS, ETC. The members of the Goatsucker family are so dif-ferent from all others that they are easy of identification,if one is so fortunate to come upon them. The Chuck-will-widows and Whip-poor-wills of the east and thePoor-Wills of the west are nocturnal birds, preferring tosleep on a limb in a cool w
. Western birds . COSTA HUMMINGBIRDS OX .NKSTS. WESTERN BIRDS Poor-wm Order Macrochires: Goatsuckers, Swifts,Hummingbirds, etc. Suborder Caprimulgi. GENUS ]N0PTILUS: HUMMING-BIRDS, GOATSUCKEES, ETC. Poor-Will: Phclcenoptilus nuttalli nuttalli. FAMILY—CAPRIMOLGIDtE: NIGHTHAWKS,WHIP-POOR-WILLS, ETC. The members of the Goatsucker family are so dif-ferent from all others that they are easy of identification,if one is so fortunate to come upon them. The Chuck-will-widows and Whip-poor-wills of the east and thePoor-Wills of the west are nocturnal birds, preferring tosleep on a limb in a cool wood or on the shady ground,in the day time and come out at night to hunt on swiftwings the moths, beetles, gnats and such-like that formtheir food. It is also as dusk approaches that the listenerhears the plaintive cry in which the bird calls its namein quick rapid succession. It is so different from any-thing else in Nature that once heard it cannot be for-gotten, or confused with other bird calls. Nuttalls Poo
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