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night, the Nightjars seem discomforted ; they sit close, 

 hugging the rotten hough for very comfort, and the 

 purring" churr is seldom uttered. Duriug the first week 

 in September these birds will leave, not to reappear till 

 the middle of next May. 



On May 14, 1902, Mr. T. Hepburn found a Nightjar 

 on the beach at Dungeness. 



Family PICIDiE. 

 Genus PICUS, Linnteus. 



GEEAT BLACK WOODPECKEE. 



Picks martins, Linncieus. S.N., i., p. 173 (1766). 



On the authority of Mr. K. T. Filmer the present species 

 is admitted in the fauna of Kent. It appears that he 

 observed this bird in the first week in January, 1905, on 

 the top of a telegraph pole, in the railway cutting near 

 Bourne Wood, Orlestone, Kent, and it is supposed that 

 the same bird or its mate was seen by one of Mr. 

 Balston's keepers — Stickles — independently of the above 

 observer, who was unaware that Mr. Filmer had seen one ; 

 and it was not far from the same locality. The descrip- 

 tion of the bird given by Mr. Filmer, as being entirely 

 black, about as big as a Jackdaw, with a red patch on the 

 head, agrees exactly Avith this species. 



