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not send it to me; but kept it two days in his house and then 
threw ttinto the back yard ; whereitlay until the afternoon of 
the same day, hens, pigeons, and children in the meantime 
doing their best to spoil its appearance. By good luck I 
went to see him, and hearing it was a light coloured bird, 
I went to look at it; and I found what I thought was a 
pale variety of the Common Nightjar ; I need hardly say 
how vexed I was that tt had not been brought to me; but 
I cut off the wings, and tail, and I brought them home ; 
on comparing them with ‘ Caprimulgus Europeus’ I saw 
a striking difference ; and sent back for the body, with 
which my bird stuffer has contrived to make a skin.” 
Mr. Seebohm on comparing the bird with ‘ A¢gyptia- 
cus’ in his own collection identifiedit. He adds that the 
eggs are simaller, paler, and yellower, than those of 
‘Europeus’. 
Severtzow says the young keep company with the 
parents until the end of August. 
It is admitted by H. Saunders in his preface to the 
3rd vol. Yarrell’s British Birds. 
THE RED-NECKED NIGHTJAR. 
(CAPRIMULGUS RUFICOLLIS.) 
Admitted to the B.O.U List, 
Noticed by Newton. 
Admitted by Seebohm. 
Newton says “it has a range so far to the Southward, 
that the only known appearance in England, especially 
when the season of the occurrence is considered, seems at 
present not to justify its being regarded asa British Bird.” 
The date was October 5, it could not be an ‘escaped.’ 
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