A species of goatsucker.

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1781.  The owls and whipperwills complete the rough concert, which may be heard several miles.—Samuel Peters, ‘History of Connecticut,’ p. 151 (Lond.).

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1814.  A short fable in blank verse, ‘The Bald Eagle and Whip-poor-Will,’ from the Federal Republican, appeared in the Mass. Spy, Feb. 2.

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1818.  

        ’Tis pleasant, when the world is still,
  And evening’s mantle shrouds the vale,
To hear the pensive whip-poor-will
  Pour her deep notes along the dale.
Samuel Woodworth, ‘Evening.’    

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1823.  At evening we heard the cry of the whip-poor-will. [Note] Caprimulgus vociferus.—E. James, ‘Rocky Mountain Expedition,’ i. 4 (Phila.).

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1824.  Scaring the whip-poor-wills among the trees.—Somerset (Me.) Journal, Feb. 27: from the Providence Journal.

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1845.  A poem of four stanzas, ‘The Whippowil,’ appeared in the Yale Lit. Mag., x. 364 (July).

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