A Nighthawk Incident 



BY FRANK M. CHAPMAN 



With photographs from nature by the author 



A DISCUSSION of the specific distinctness of the Whip-poor-will 

 and Nighthawk, following an address to Connecticut agriculturists, 

 some years ago, led to my receipt, in July, 1900, of .an invitation 

 from a gentleman who was present, to come and see a bird, then nest- 

 ing on his farm, that he believed, combined the characters of both the 



NIGHTHAWK AND YOUNG ON ROCK 



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

 these names applied. 



Here was an opportunity to secure a much -desired photograph, and, 

 armed with the needed apparatus, as well as specimens of both the Night- 

 hawk and Whip-poor-will, I boarded an early train for Stevenson, Conn., 

 prepared to gain my point with bird as well as with man. 



The latter accepted the specimens as incontrovertible facts and read- 

 justed his views as to the status of the birds they represented, and we 

 may therefore at once turn our attention to the Nighthawk who was 

 waiting so patiently on a bit of granite out in the hay fields. The sun 



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