Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1918 — Species of Whippoorwill. [ARTICLE]

Species of Whippoorwill.

The cry of the whippoorwill is Its song and only the male utters It. The female is silent When it is singing, just as likely as not the whippoorwill is sitting on the ground, although it sings from the treetops at times. It doesn’t sing after midnight. From dark until about 10 o’clock Is its favorite time for singing—or yeling. In the South there is a kindred bird, somewhat larger than the Northern whippoorwill, which is sometimes called "chuck-will’s-widow,” because that is what some folks assert it says. And in England there Is a bird very similar to the whippoorwill known as the “goat-sucker,” because It is supposed to obtain Its food from the milk of goats.—Exchange.