A NIGHTHAWK INCIDENT 



A discussion of the specific distinctness of the Whip- 

 poor-will and the Nighthawk, following an address to Con- 

 necticut agriculturists, some years ago, led to my receipt the 

 following July, of an invitation from a gentleman who had 



NigMhawk and Young 



been present, to come and see a bird, then nesting on his 

 farm, which he believed combined the characters of both 

 the Whip-poor-will and Nighthawk ; in short, was the bird 

 to which both these names applied. 



Tempted by the opportunity to photograph the bird, as 

 well as to establish its identity, I boarded an early train for 

 Stevenson, Connecticut, armed with Museum specimens of 



