206 
Chordeilos popotuo. 
1868, 
Middlesex County, Mass, 
May 22. Tv;o. 
“ 28. Numerous, the males booming, 
Juno 20, Started a female from a single egg which probably 
would have been hatched in another day. She rose about 
ten yards ahead of me and swept about in silence over 
my head; the egg rras laid on the bare ground irhore 
the loaves and other debris had been sv^ept away by fires 
and there v/as not even a hollow made for its reception. 
One this evening. 
Several. 
One, the last. 
Sept.19. 
“ 26, 
Oct. 5. 
1869. 
May 25. 
Aug. 31, 
1870. 
May 13, 
1871. 
May 22, 
“ 26. 
1875. 
May 27. 
May 18. 
" 27. 
Aug, 22. 
Sopt, 9, 
“ 13. 
1876. 
May 19. 
Several. 
Many small flocks migrating in the evening twilight, 
Tv:o at Newton (Maynard), 
1 ■ 
'' Several (Concord), 
Numbers flying about in the evning tv/ilight. 
Shot one at Newton, 
A male sitting perfectly still on the top-most branch 
of a dead apple tree. It was about noon with the sun 
very hot, and I got near enough to see that the bird»s 
eyes v^ere tightly closed, I shot at it bringing it 
down vdth a broken wing; upon presenting my hand it 
opened its mouth to the fullest extent and uttered a 
defencr rattle but did not attempt any other 
At sunset yesterday and to-day I have seen several 
small companies of Nighthawks passing south. 
Two nying south at sunset. Have seen them migra¬ 
ting nearly every evening since August 21, 
Saw one this evening, 
d 9 ) several in the twilight this evening fCambri- 
