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- Eastern Nighthawk.
[Illegible word crossed out] Chordeiles minor. minor [all underlined]
Point Gray B.C. [British Columbia] July 1. 1929. Numerous. Both ad [adult]
+ juv. [juvenile] Flying about all morning - bright hot day.
A juv [juvenile] seen sitting lengthwise on the limb of a
dead cedar 40 ft [feet] above ground. The birds
in flight were constantly making the familiar
"booming" sound.
Alta Lake B.C. [British Columbia] Aug. [August] 1932. [all underlined] About all Summer
Aug. [August] 19/32 [1932] heard about this p.m. [evening] at dusk during
thunderstorm. Noted that one was "booming".
All had left for south by Aug. [August] 28.
Huntingdon B.C. [British Columbia] June 5, 1932. [all underlined] First arrived
today + thereafter common
Island View Beach, Saanich VI [Vancouver Island] B.C. [British Columbia] Sept. [September] 14. 1936 [all underlined]
In company with I McT [Ian McTaggart] Cowan. Raised an old bird
from roadway by fence, between brush + beach. Shortly
afterwards another was flushed from sand
amongst beach logs + drift then bird disappearing
over the line [two illegible words]. Later when looking
for savanna sparrows in grass on sand flat
raised another which I collected. It proved to be
[illegible word crossed out] a juv. [juvenile] [space left blank] Now No. [number] [space left blank] in the Provincial
Museum Collection.
Victoria B.C. [British Columbia] [all underlined] June 8. 1937. 8pm Heard
nighthawks in the city for the first time
this year.
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