’ NIGHTHAWKS, WHIP—POOR—WILLS, ETC. 237 
     
    
   
   
    
     tied with black, ochraceous, and cream-bufl“; an imperfect whitish band 
     
     across the upper breast; base of the bill beset with long, stifl‘cned bristles, 
     
     the basal half of these bristles grown with hairlike branches. Ad. 9 .—Similar, 
     
     but with no white patches in the tail, the upper breast with an ochraceous— 
     
     bufl' instead of white band. L., 1200; W., 8'50; T., 6-00; B., '40. 
     
    

    
     Range—Eastern United States; breeds from North Carolina and Illinois 
     
     southward; winters from our southern borders southward; accidental in 
     
     Massachusetts. 
     
    

    
     Cambridge, A. V., one record, Dec. 
     
    

    
     Eggs, two, laid on the ground or leaves, in woods or thickets, dull white, 
     
     with delicate, obscure pale lilac markings, and a few distinct brownish—gray 
     
     spots, 1'40 x '98. 
     
    

    
     Generally speaking, this species resembles the Whip-poor-will in 
     
     habits. Its notes are quite similar to those of that species, but are 
     
     louder, less rapidly uttered, and each call has an additional syllable. 
     
     Its gape is enormous. the wide-open mouth of an adult measuring 
     
     about two inches from corner to corner. For this reason it can swal- 
     
     low large objects with ease, and both Hummingbirds and Sparrows 
     
     have been found in Chuck-will’s-widow’s stomach. Perhaps they were 
     
     mistaken for large moths. 
     
    
   
   
    
     417. Antrostomus vociferus ( Wils.). WHIP-POOR-WILL. Ad. 6. 
     
     —Upper parts streaked with black, the head finely mottled with black and 
     
     white, the back mottled with oehraceous—bufl and black; primaries black, 
     
     witlrbroken rufous bars; tail irregularly barred with black and mottled with 
     
     whitish or cream—buff; end half of three outer feathers white ,' black on the 
     
     outer vane of the outer feather extending farther down than on the others; 
     
     throat and breast blackish, finely mottled with cream-buff or ochraceous—bufl'; 
     
     a narrow white band across the upper breast; belly cream-buff, irregularly 
     
     barred with blackish; base of the bill beset with long, stiffened bristles, 
     
     which are without hairlike branches. Ad. 9 .—Similar, but three outer tail- 
     
     feathers narrowly tipped with ochraceous—bufl"; band on the throat cream- 
     
     buff instead of white. L., 975; W., 6'08; T., 4 65; B., '37. 
     
    

    
     Range—Eastern North America, north to New Brunswick and Manitoba; 
     
     winters from Florida southward. 
     
    

    
     Washington, common S. R., Apl. 15 to Oct. Sing Sing, common S. It, 
     
     Apl. 19 to Oct. 17. Cambridge, common S. It, Apl. 28 to Sept. 20. 
     
    

    
     Eggs, two, laid on the ground or leaves, in woods or thickets; dull white, 
     
     ‘with delicate, obscure lilac markings and a few distinct brownish gray spots, 
     
     1'18 x ‘84. 
     
    
   
   
    
     In walking through rather densely grown woods I have sometimes 
     
     been surprised by having a Whip-poor-will fly up from beneath my 
     
     feet and disappear in the surrounding growth. I say surprised, be- 
     
     cause the bird’s flight is as noiseless as a. moth’s, and this unusual, 
     
     ghostly silence is almost as startling as the whir of a Grouse. 
     
    

    
     The Whip-poor-will’s day begins when the sun goes down. Then