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 A Nighthawk Incident BY FRANK M. CHAPMAN With phntoKraphs 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, igoo, 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 [;■ :m. 'iLS^»>Jsar^- 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 patientK' on a bit of granite out in the hay fields. The sun (126)