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sides of the nest, a nightjar had selected its breeding- 

 place. A small path wound up one side of the heap, 

 leading to a point from which the nest was visible 

 through the opening in the remaining side. There 

 was no attempt to form a nest of any sort, the eggs 

 being laid upon the bare rock, but in a spot where 

 small chippings gave it a more regular surface. One 

 egg was out on the 3rd June, and the completing 

 egg was found beside it on the following day. There 

 can be few eggs more beautiful than those of the 

 nightjar ; white in the ground, they are boldly 

 marbled with brown upon an under marbling of 

 stone grey, both ends of the egg being rounded. 



The natives of these parts, as of other parts of 

 the country, have a superstitious dread of the night- 

 jar, and when the present nest was found, they 

 advised that the eggs should be broken and the bird 

 driven away. The day after the second egg was 

 out, I photographed the nest, and after doing so, 

 made preparations to get a picture of the bird itself. 

 In order to get light on the nest I was forced to 

 remove one of the enclosing stones, and setting the 

 camera upon it, covered it with small stones to 

 disguise it. As the bird did not return during the 

 day, I feared that I had exhausted its patience and 

 caused it to desert. However, placing everything as 

 I had found it, I trusted to the bird becoming 

 sufficiently bold, when going her nightly round, to 

 look in on the old spot, and finding all safe, to 

 resume sitting. In this I was not disappointed, for 



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