96 A HAND-LIST OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



Distribution. — Abroad. — North-west Africa, south Europe to 

 Pyrenees, Alps and Crimea, islands in Mediterranean, Asia Minor 

 to Caucasus, Persia to Turkestan, Himalayas and high mountains 

 of Indian Peninsula, Ceylon. Winter-quarters uncertain ; observed 

 in south Arabia and northern Sahara on migration. Replaced by 

 allied races in mountains of tropical and south Africa. 



APUS APUS 



200. Apus apus apus (L.) — THE SWIFT. 



HiRuxDO Apus Limifeus, Syst. Xat., ed. x, i, p. 192 (1758 — Europe. 



Restricted typical locality : Sweden). 



Cypselus apus (Linnaeus), Yarrell, ii, p. 364 ; Saunders, p. 261. 



Distribution. — British Isles. — Summer-resident (end April to end 

 Aug., Sept., and Oct., exceptionally later). Generally distributed 

 except in north-west Scotland, where does not breed ; I. Hebrides, 

 where rarely breeds ; O. Hebrides, Orkneys and Shetlands, where 

 does not breed and is an uncommon, though fairly regular, migrant. 

 These last must be passage-migrants, but there is practically no 

 other evidence of passage-migration. 



Distribution. — Abroad. — Europe generally from about lat. 70° in 

 Scandinavia and Archangel in north Russia southwards, in winter 

 as far as south Africa and Madagascar. Replaced by somewhat 

 doubtful forms in south Europe and north-west Africa, and by more 

 distinct ones in various parts of west, north, and middle Asia. 



CHiETURA CAUDACUTA 



201. Chastura caudacuta caudacuta (Lath.) — THE NEEDLE- 

 TAILED SWIFT. 



HiRUXDO CAUDACUTA Latham, Ind. Orn., Suppl., p. Ivii, (1801 — 



Australia). 



Acanthyllis caudacuta (Latham), Yarrell, ii, p. 371 (footnote), in, p. ix ; 



Samiders, p. 26.5. 



Distribution. — England. — Two. One Great Horkeslev (Essex) 

 July 8, 1846 {Zool., 1846, p. 1492). One (said to have 'been with 

 another) Ringwood (Hants) July 26 or 27, 1879 [Proc. Zool. Sac, 

 1880, p. 1; Zool, 1880, p. 81). 



Distribution. — Abroad. — East Siberia, Mongolia, Manchuria, Sac- 

 halin, and Japan, in winter in Australia and Tasmania. Replaced 

 by C. caudacuta nudipes in the Himalayas. 



CAPRIMULGUS EUROPiEUS 



202. Caprimulgus europaeus europaeus L. — THE NIGHTJAR. 



Caprimulgus europaeus Linnaeus, Syst. Xat., ed. x, i, p. 193 (1758 — 



' ' Europe and America," the latter a mistake. Restricted typical locality : 



Sweden). 



Caprimulgus europceus Linnaeus, Yarrell, ii, p. 377 ; Saunders, p. 267. 



