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209. Antrostomus vocifenis. Whip-poor-will. 



Locally, common summer resident. April 18 (Lake Grove) 

 to Sept. 22 (Lake Grove, A. H. Howell). Less common in the 

 nesting season than during the migrations, when its distribution, 

 like that of all migratory land birds, is more general. An ab- 

 normally early nesting date was recorded, at Oyster Bay, April 

 26, 1885 (N. T. Lawrence, Auk, ii, 1885, p. 272). 



210. Chordeiles virginianus. Night Hawk. 



Locally, common summer resident. April 25 (Montauk) 

 May 8 (Brooklyn) to Oct. 12 (Brooklyn, Prospect Park). 



At the eastern end of the island it nests on the gravel-strewn, 

 sandy wastes about Napeague. Its eggs have several times 

 been discovered on the roofs of houses in the heart of Brooklyn, 

 and its call note, uttered while on wing is a famiHar evening 

 sound to the initiated ear. These urban nesting sites are 

 invariably on roofs with a covering of tar and pebbles, which 

 simulates not a little the characteristics of the nesting habitat 

 supplied by Nature. The protective similitude of its eggs to 

 the pebbles make their discovery on house-tops less easy than 

 one would suppose. 



211. Chsetura pelagica. Chimney Swift. 



Common summer resident. April 27 (Brooklyn) to Oct. 6 

 (Brooklyn). 



212. Trochilus colubris. Ruby-throated Hummingbird. 

 Not common summer resident. May 11 (Parkville) to Sept. 



17 (Shinnecock). Nests the latter half of May. 



213. Tjnrannus tyrannus. Kingbird. 



Common summer resident. April 30 (Lake Grove A. H. 

 Howell) to Sept. 7 (Rockaway). Nests the first or second week 

 in June. 



214. Tyrannus dominicensis. Gray Kingbird. 

 Accidental visitor from the southern states. There is but 



