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low a short distance away and sat on the sand watching me. Several times, 
as I stooped over the nest, it flew near and fluttered and hissed desperately. 
This behavior contrasted sharply with the shyness of the whip-poor-will. 
However, the difference in birds’ protection of their young and of eggs is 
very great, and on that score it is unfair to compare these two species at 
non-corresponding periods in their nesting cycle. 
CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES PHOTO 
Nighthawk 
I inspected the nighthawk’s nest at eleven a.m. on July 11. When I 
returned at two p.m. on the same day, the young had been moved five feet 
from the original nest site. The incubating bird hissed and fluttered as 
described above. A visit on July 14 found the two young nighthawks moved 
again, about fifteen feet away this time. Their eyes were now open and 
their feathers growing rapidly. Three days later they could not be found 
in the nest vicinity. 
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Birdlife at Lake Merritt—1941 
By ESTHER ANN CRAIGMILE 
HAVING WITNESSED the duck hunting in the tules along the Klamath River 
and the grain fields along Lower Klamath Lake in southern Oregon, it was 
interesting to spend a day at Lake Merritt where the waterfowl were with- 
out fear. To find a bird haven in the heart of a city like Oakland, Cali- 
fornia, is unique indeed. 
I arrived toward noon, October 22, and found flocks of ruddy ducks, 
