. Birds and nature in natural colors : being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada . es for the loud reiterations of his favorite call inspring. Yet personally he is but little known, most people being unable to dis-tinguish this from the Nighthawk, when both are placed before them; and someinsisting that they are the same. This being the case, it becomes the duty of hishistorian to give a full and faithful delineation of his character and peculiarityof manners, that his existence as a distinct and independent species may no longerbe doubted, n
. Birds and nature in natural colors : being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada . es for the loud reiterations of his favorite call inspring. Yet personally he is but little known, most people being unable to dis-tinguish this from the Nighthawk, when both are placed before them; and someinsisting that they are the same. This being the case, it becomes the duty of hishistorian to give a full and faithful delineation of his character and peculiarityof manners, that his existence as a distinct and independent species may no longerbe doubted, nor his story mingled confusedly with that of another. I trust thatthose best acquainted with him will bear witness to the fidelity of the portrait. On or about the twenty-fifth of April, if the season be not uncommonlycold, the Whip-poor-will is first herd in the evening, as the dusk of twilight com-mences, or at dawn in the morning. I first heard the Whip-poor-will on thefourteenth of April. The notes of this solitary bird, from the ideas which arenaturally associated with them, seem like the voice of an old friend, and are 240. listened to by almost all with great interest. At first they issue from some retiredpart of the woods, the glen or mountain; in a few evenings, perhaps, we hearthem from the adjoining coppice, the garden fence, the road before the door,and even from the roof of the dwelling house, long after the family have retiredto rest. Some of the more ignorant and superstitious consider this near approachas foreboding no good to the family—nothing less than sickness, misfortune, ordeath to some of its members. These visits, however, so often occur without anybad consequences, that this superstitious dread seems on the decline. He is now a regular acquaintance. Every morning and evening his shrilland rapid repetitions are heard from the adjoining woods, and when two ormore are calling out at the same time, as is often the case in the pairing season,and at no grea
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