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the iiest. She always lit on the uiR'th side of the box. No new develop- 

 ments appeared until four days later, on July 11. When I arrived at fif- 

 teen minutes of nine on the following morning, I set my camera down and 

 wallved l)oldly up to the nest to inspect. A little noise never scared the 

 old bird. When I got about five feet from the box a liird sprang out. but 

 not the liomelj' little female. This was a AVhip-poor-will luidoubtedly, but 

 it had a white ring around its neck and also displayed two dazzling white 

 tail feathers. At last I hod found the male lirooding. lie did not fall at 

 my feet as did the female but flew to a log about thirty feet away, eyed 

 me with evident disapproval, uttt'red a few protesting chucks and then 

 witli a flirt of his white tail featliers vanished among tlie liushes. 1 now 

 turned to the nest and to my surprise found only one l)ird there and that 

 was AVhip-poor-Avill No. 2. It was all made plain now. The mother had 

 succeeded in getting the older one to fly over but the younger was not 

 able to do so. Therefore, she had si)irited the older awa.v, leaving hi'r 

 mate to lirood tlie younger. I relri'ated about thirty feet and sat down to 

 watch developments. In about ten minutes the male Whip-poor-will ap- 

 peared, lit on till' edge of the liox opposite to the sid<> that the female al- 

 ways lit on. sat there tv.o or tlu-ee minutes and then di'opped in. I ap- 

 lirnached and tried to get a photograph of him liut he absolutely refused 1o 

 sil fnr me and so 1 left. I i-eliu'ued twice the next day. July 12. to get a 

 negative, but he was just as wilil as ever. When 1 arrived at the box at 

 S::',() till' following morning. July b"!, the liox was emiity: the last bird had 

 flown. Tims is the history of the family for sixlccii days, that being the 

 time re(|uir('d for them lioili to lly. Tlicy would have iiroli;il>ly remained 

 near tlic old nest several d.iys longer if tliey liad Iieeii uiidistiu'bed. 

 [420] < 'lionh'ilcs rir[iininnti!< (Gmel.). Night Hawk. 



Not rare. I saw it three times during the summer. 

 [428] Cliufiini jit'hK/icd (Linn.). Chimney Swift. 

 [428] Trorhihix colnbrifi Linn. Ruby-tliroated Humming bird. 



Rather common. I have been miable to find a nest but have seen this 

 bird vei-y often. 

 [444] Tiiriniiiii.'i.fiinninux (Linn.). King Bird. 



Very common. One of the liveliest and cinunionest birds around the 

 lake. 

 [452] MjiiarchitK rriiiH>ii< (Linn.). Great Crested Flycatcher. 



Common. 



