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desideratum. However, July 16 found me at the spot indicated which was 

 on the roadside between Massawippi and Hatley Centre, on the farm 

 belonging to Mr. Geo. Raeburn, who informed me that he first noticed the 

 birds about the middle of May, and that they had a nest and four young on 

 the roadside not far off, so I went to investigate and sure enough it was not 

 long before I caught sight of both parent birds making for a decayed maple 

 tree close to the roadside, where the nest was found about fifteen feet above 

 the ground. Not wishing to disturb the birds I did not climb to it then, 

 nor have I done so since, and can therefore give no dimensions of nesting 

 hole at present, as I am anxious to see whether the birds will return next 

 year and occupy the old site again. I might however, casually mention 

 that the entrance hole was not a perfect circle, being more of a heart shape 

 from some cause or another. Five days later, or on July 21,1 again visited 

 the spot and took some photos of the nest site, with both parent birds near 

 the hole. At first they were somewhat nervous on seeing me and kept up a 

 great chatter before one of them ventured to the hole and fed the young. 

 Afterwards they became accustomed to my presence (as I stayed there for 

 about an hour during which time the parents fed the young about every 

 quarter of an hour) and flew direct to the site without any fuss. 



On the thirty-first I visited them again, the young birds being still in 

 the nest, but pushing their heads well out whenever they heard the parent 

 birds coming with food. It was between this date and August 4 that they 

 left the nest, as on visiting the site on the latter date they had gone, but I 

 saw one of the parents in a field not far off and have no doubt the young 

 were there also, but I was unable at the time to go after them. I left 

 Hatley shortly after and did not return until the twenty-sixth, when I 

 again visited the site, but failed to find either the parents or young, but 

 Mr. Raeburn has since told me that he saw them on several occasions near 

 his house up to the fifteenth of the month, after which date they disappeared 

 and were not seen again, so that this would account for my failing to find 

 them on the twenty-sixth. 



As regards other instances of this handsome and interesting bird having 

 been seen in the district is one noted by Dr. Brown about three years ago 

 at Burroughs Falls, which is not so very far from Ayers Cliff, and Mr. 

 Greer tells me that his brother also saw one some twelve years ago or more 

 near North Hatley. Mr. Stephen Clarke of Hatley Centre has a mounted 

 adult bird, which he shot on his farm about ten years ago, in the month of 

 September, and he also tells me that he had seen one other example some 

 years previously. 



150. Antrostomus vociferus vociferus (Wilson). Whip-poor-will. 

 Uncommon summer visitant; May to September. To give the exact 

 status of the Whip-poor-will at Hatley is not an easy matter owing to the 

 secretive and nocturnal habits of the bird. Personally I have only seen 

 one example on the evening of June 30, 1916 (when driving home from 

 Coaticook a bird flew across the road from the outskirts of a large wood 

 which I was enabled to identify as belonging to this species), but this may 



