1893
June 21
 (No 4) 
Andover, Connecticut

From time of our leaving the hotel to my return                                                      
an hour later Night hawks were seen?  out of sight or
hearing.  From two or three to half a dozen were continually
darting about high in air and their sharp, penetrating
flight cry (speak or , more literally rendered, peek) came to
the ear from mu direction which the mobs boomed at short
intervals. Faxon afterwards reported seeing & hearing them
for a mile or more down the railroad & we consider twenty
a moderate estimate of the total number observed.
At a ??? they flew in pairs, at first 200 to 300 ft. above
the earth, later low down over the fields & roads.  The males
were continually mounting by a successions of short , juky flights until
getting 100 ft. or more above the females they would stoop
down towards them & boom just as they passed  them [mates 
sometimes b???ing. The male sometimes [passed] turned
upwards just above, sometimes just below its mate invariably
passing within a few feet of her just before the upward trun?.
It seemed to me that the female usually timed her flight so as
to be at the right spot [at the moment] when the male
is as ready to descend. When the female alighted the [?]
the male would form one his many time in quick
procession  rising each time only 50 to 70 ft.  One bird had
much evident trouble to avoid the telegraph wires under which
the female had alighted.
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As it was getting dark the Nights hawks came in pairs
to the dusty road and alighted on the ground side by side.
They moved about by a succession of short awkward runs?
reminding us of big toads. They kept picking up something
from the ground. though mu glass I could see them swallow
these objects I took to be insects.  both sexes certainly
picked up & ate the objects whatever they are. I saw