. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. GOATSUCKERS 171 brownish-black band near the tips and the white tip, broader; lores, region around eyes, and sides of head, nearly uniform sepia-brown ; cheeks and chin, lighter sepia or grayish-brown, minutely freckled with darker, the former usually intermixed with white in front, this sometimes forming a distinct mouth streak; throat, immaculate silky white, this extending farther back- ward on the sides than on middle portion ; extreme lower throat and upper chest, mostly uniform very dark sooty-brown or sooty-black, the lower chest with tips of
. Birds of America;. Birds -- North America. GOATSUCKERS 171 brownish-black band near the tips and the white tip, broader; lores, region around eyes, and sides of head, nearly uniform sepia-brown ; cheeks and chin, lighter sepia or grayish-brown, minutely freckled with darker, the former usually intermixed with white in front, this sometimes forming a distinct mouth streak; throat, immaculate silky white, this extending farther back- ward on the sides than on middle portion ; extreme lower throat and upper chest, mostly uniform very dark sooty-brown or sooty-black, the lower chest with tips of feathers, pale colored, sometimes pale grayish minutely stippled with darker, sometimes barred with black and pale grayish or wdiite, sometimes a large whitish spot, of variable form; breast and sides, dull white or buffy-white narrowly barred with dusky- brown or black, the barring more close in front, more distant behind: rest of underparts, cream buff to bufTy- white, the flanks sometimes with rather distant and rather broad bars of dusky ; under wing-coverts, buff usually immaculate but sometimes with a few dusky spots or bars near edge of wing; inner webs of pri- maries, buff (except tips) with six or seven large curved transverse spots of dusky, of which the end ones do not cross to edge of the web; bill, black; iris, brown; naked eyelids, dull ochraceous; legs and feet, brownish, the former sometimes more lilaceous. Nest and Eggs.— Rgcs : 2, pure white, unspotted; deposited on liare ground in brush at edge of timber or in :i bunch of briers or a thicket upon the open prairies. Distribution.^ Western United States, north to soutlieastern I'.ritish Columbia, Idaho, Montana, and northwestern North Dakota; east to southeastern South Dakota, eastern Nebraska, western Iowa, eastern Kan- sas, and western and central Texas; west to California to about latitude of 40° ; south to Lower California and central Mexico. I first lu'ard the song of the Poor-will in a the day-time, a
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