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76 TEXAS NATURE OBSERVATIONS AND REMINISCENCES.
especially its head with the enor
ing remnants of some large beetle
mous wide mouth parts, a photo species.
was taken of its head and repro
The photo shows the head
_ herein,~ ~ .parts in about normal size-a
duced herein. side view of same, with partly
The bird was twice as large opened mouth. The eyes are very
as a bullbat, which it resembled large and the upper part of the
somewhat ,n its general striped bill is sharply curved-like the
coloring of the body, wings and bill of a hawk. On both sides
tailfeathers, and it measured twen
of the upper bill numbers of long
ty inches from tip to tip of the hair bristles are present-characoutspread
wings. Though in teristic of the goatsucker species.
close search for a nest for years It is exceedingly rare that
I never could trace onn-neither such specimen should be captured,
on the plains or forests, nor at any especially in day time, as the
RIVULET ANn FOREST, WESTERN MOUNTAIN REGIONS, NEAR THE GALLAGHER
RANCH, THE HAUNTS OF THE WHIP-POOR-WILL, ETC.
museum of Texas bird specimens. Whip-poor-will is a strictly nocIt
was of course generally re
turnal bird-and one that always
gretted the mistake was made delights the heart of the night
of shooting this handsome and traveler, farmer, or camper with
useful bird, but it also served to its melodious, inimitable songgive
it a close inspection; and resembling somewhat the name
the examination of its gullet and given this bird. It abounds quite
stomach showed that its food numerously in the western mounconsisted
exclusively of insects, tainous regions, in the dense
as the stomach contained the forest woods, where, in the stillness
remnants of a large number of of the night, it delights the traveler
various beetles-all in small frag
with its merry song. Often two
ments of the legs, wings, etc., or more Whip-poor-wills are heard
partly predigested-most parts be
a far distance away-one re-
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Menger, Rudolph. Texas Nature Observations and Reminiscences, book, 1913; San Antonio, Tex.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth14396/m1/76/?q=menger: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.