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to be plentiful at St. Jerome, 33 miles north of 

 Montreal. The late Mr. Caulfield received a speci- 

 men May 9, 1890, from that place to stuff. I have 

 heard of its occurrence here, and many years ago 

 Mr. Kuetzing shot one near the cemetery ; and on 

 one occasion, May 22, 1891, as I was rambling 

 through the wood on the spur of Mount Royal, I 

 flushed a bird off the ground several times, and at 

 the time considered it to be of this species, but, 

 unfortunately, I could not secure it to make its 

 identity certain, as it always flew off low and behind 

 the bushes, uttering at the same time a guttural 

 sound, with the tail spread out, showing white tips 

 or patches like that of the whip-poor-will or adult 

 male nighthawk. 



Genus Chordeiles. Swainson. 



139. Nighthawk. (Goatsucker; Mosquito Hawk.) 



C. virginanus. (Grael.) 



" Summer Resident," common. Breeds in the 

 city upon gravelled roofs of houses. About the 

 middle of the month of August the nighthawks as- 

 semble together on the wing, and the bulk then 

 leave the precincts of the city. I have observed 

 this bird here from May 8 to September 17. At 

 Philipsburg, P.Q., June 6, 1882, I noticed large 

 numbers in the evening flitting about, like swallows, 

 close to the surface of Missisquoi Bay, below the 

 precipitous rocky wooded shore there, and whereon 



