. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush. Birds. 170 KEY AND DESCRIPTION feathers instead of white. The rictal bristles are long, but not branching. This bird flies and makes its whip-poor-will notes after sunset and before sunrise. It is a common, low- flying bird, much more frequently heard than seen. Length, 9^; wing, 6 (5J-6|) ; tail, 4|; culmen, |. North America from the Plains eastward; breeding from Virginia, north to New Bruns- wick and Manitoba, and wintering from Florida to Central America. 3. Poor-wil
. Birds of the United States east of the Rocky Mountains; a manual for the identification of species in hand or in the bush. Birds. 170 KEY AND DESCRIPTION feathers instead of white. The rictal bristles are long, but not branching. This bird flies and makes its whip-poor-will notes after sunset and before sunrise. It is a common, low- flying bird, much more frequently heard than seen. Length, 9^; wing, 6 (5J-6|) ; tail, 4|; culmen, |. North America from the Plains eastward; breeding from Virginia, north to New Bruns- wick and Manitoba, and wintering from Florida to Central America. 3. Poor-will (418 Phalcendptilus nuttdllii'). — A western whip- poor-will, beautifully mottled with bronze-gray and silver- gray markings; both sexes have the white patch across the throat, and nearly white tips to the under tail feathers. In singing its notes the first syllable is dropped, and so this bird is called a poor-will. Length, 8 ; wing, 5^ (5|-5|) ; tail, 3|; tarsus, |; culmen, |. Western United States from Kansas and Montana, and southward and westward to Mexico. Merrill's Parauque (419. Nyctidromus alhic6lUs merrilli). — A Texas species of very large size, long, rounded tail, and with a great white patch on the wings. The male has a broad white collar ; l\ie female a less distinct buff one. The under tail feathers are more or less white at tip. Length, 10|-13J; wing, 7 (6-7i) ; tail, 6|; tarsus, 1; culmen, f. Southern Texas to northeastern Mexico. 4. Nighthawk (420. Chordeiles {di-les) virginihnus). — A bat- like, night and evening flying, dark-colored, finely mottled bird, with conspicu- ous white patches at about the middle of the wings, looking like holes when the bird is flying. It dif- Nighthawk fers from the forego- ing species in flying high in the air, and in having almost no rictal bristles. It varies its flight with occasional dives toward the ground v^^ith wings nearly closed; before reaching the earth there is a sud- den check in the speed, and a slow upward
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