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husband and myself were therefore anxious to study its habits closely and 

 it was with this object that on the 9th Nov. 1906 we obtained our first 

 Nightjar from the Berlin dealer, P. Heibel. This bird was in very poor 

 feather and had a kind of stupified expression but it was well nourished. 

 For nearly a month it had to be hand-fed ; it then commenced to take a 

 little food from a pair of forceps and at the end of December it picked up a 

 mealworm from the ground. It was a male and we called him " Ktuio." 



Early in 1907 "K11110" showed some signs of an intention to make a 

 nest, so our ambition now was to obtain another and attempt to breed them. 

 In July we succeeded in obtaining two young birds from the same nest. 

 We had the greatest difficulty in rearing them, before the}* came into our 

 hands they had been fed on bread and milk by which their feathers had 

 been much soiled. 



These young birds were a pair, but the male did not agree with 

 "Kuno," so we gave him to the Frankfort Zoological Gardens, keeping 

 "Kuuo" and the young female which we called " Norah." 



We kept them in a cage 3ft. long. 2fi. deep and 2ft. high, with peat 

 and sand on the floor. " Kuuo" would neither drink nor bathe so we used 

 to syringe him. 



In the afternoons they were allowed their "liberty in the dining room 

 or study. "Kuno" was very lively and would fly quietly and cleverly round 

 and round the room, but at night they would often become quite wild, 

 dashing about and striking their heads against the ceiling. 



As a young bird " Kuno " used simply to chirp, but when he grew 

 older he commenced the "jarring" note {Nachtschwalbenlochion). They 

 liked scraped meat mixed with dried ants' eggs, also scoured gentles, but 

 would not eat dried ants' eggs alone. They began their moult in the 

 middle of February and had completed it by the end of March. "Kuno" 

 began to utter his "jarring" note on the 24th March. 



" Kuno" was very shy at first with " Norah," and would not respond 

 to her friendly advances, so she turned from him, and for a long time would 

 never sit close to him, but in April, when " Kuno " began to court her in 

 earnest, " Norah " became very affectionate. At this time they weighed 

 81 grs. and 76 grs. respectively. "Kuno" now fell deeply in love. He 

 would fly round the room after " Norah." and on the ground he would 

 follow her, raising and displaying his tail, his head pressed flat to the 

 ground, curtseying before her and uttering his love-note " Quick, Quick.'' 1 

 The female would then utter a low note and " Kuno" would spring into the 

 air on triumphant wing. 



Pairing took place at the end of May. The site selected for the nest 

 was a skin-rug on the floor of the dining-room, on which "Kuno" would 

 crouch supporting himself on his wings and scraping with his feet. 

 " Norah " now began to pick up any small white objects so we supplied her 

 with some lime. On 2nd June " Norah " laid her first egg on the floor. It 

 was pale in ground colour with few spots ; length 2S mm., breadth 21 mm. 



