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Poor-will

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Poor´-will`
n.1.(Zool.) A bird of the Western United States (Phalænoptilus Nutalli) allied to the whip-poor-will.


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The whip- poor-will was heard whistling his melancholy notes along the margin of the lake, and the ponds and meadows were sending forth the music of their thousand tenants.
 
 
 
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