Early Nesting of the Texas Nighthawk
Journal
Condor
Volume
17
Issue
2 (March-April)
Year
1915
Pages
96
Section
From Field and Study
Online Text
Early Nesting of the Texas Nighthawk
Oberholser in his recent “Monograph of the Genus Chordeiles”, P. 93, gives April 27 as the earliest recorded date in the United States for eggs of the Texas Nighthawk (Chordeiles acutipennts texensis). Joseph Grinnell in his “Birds of the Pacific Slope of Los Angeles County” (Pasadena Acad. Sci. Publ. no. 2. P. 271) reports the taking by himself of a set of fresh eggs of this species on April 21, 1837. near Pasadena; and this record is quoted by Willett (Pac. Coast Avifauna no. 7, p. 581. On the 17th of April, 1914.) I took a set of these eggs in which incubation was slightly advanced, near the San Juan River, in San Luis Obispo County.
William Leon Dawson
Santa Barbara, California
