THE OSPREY. 



An Illustrated Magazine of Popular Ornithology. 



Published |VIonthlv. 



Volume V. 



MARCH AND APRIL, 1901. 



Number 4. 



Original Articles. 



PHOTOGRAPHING THE CAPRIMULGIDAE. 



By HERBERT K. Job, Kent, Conn. 



(All rights to Illustrations reserved by the Vuthor.) 



In many a rocky pasture in this vicinity about of these spots, the observer will not lack ma- 



the last of May or early June, a Night Hawk terial for his study. 



may be discovered upon some low Hat moss- These birds sit so motionless out in the bright 



grown rock, incubating 1 her two eggs. As the sunshine that, as soon as I discovered the first 



bird often returns to the same rock, year after nest, I thought it would be an easy matter to 



year, for this purpose, once having found a few secure a fine photograph of the incubating bird. 



FIG. 1.— THE NIGHTHAWK. 



