NEEDLE-TAILED SWIFT. Ch^tura caudacuta. 



Accidental visitor ; ouly two British records (Essex, Hampshire) . 

 Breeds in South-east Siberia, Mongolia, Tibet, North China, and Japan. 

 Winters in East Australia and Tasmania. 



Family CAPRIMULGID.^. 



COMMON NiaHTJAR. Caprimulgus europseus. 



Summer visitor. Breeds in Europe south of lat. 63°, West Siberia 

 south of lat. 59°, North-west Africa, Palestine, Asia Minor, Persia, 

 Russian Turkestan, and North-west India. Winters in Arabia and 

 throughout Africa. Eastern examples are paler than western ones. 



ISABELLINE NIGHTJAE. Caprimulgus segyptius. 



Accidental visitor; only one British record (Nottingham). Summer 

 visitor to Russian Turkestan, Baluchistan, Egypt, and Nubia. Probably 

 winters in Arabia and Central Africa. Has once occurred on Heligoland, 

 thrice on Malta, and once in Sicily. 



RED-NECKED NIGHTJAR, Caprimulgus ruficollis. 



Accidental visitor; only one British record (Northumberland). Breeds 

 on the Canaries, in North-west Africa, and South Spain and Portugal. 

 Winter-quarters unknown, but probably in North Africa. 



Family MEROPID^. 



COMMON BEE-EATER. Merops apiaster. 



Accidental visitor; thirty to forty British records, mostly English. 

 Summer visitor to the Canaries, North Africa, Europe south of the Car- 

 pathians, Palestine, Asia Minor, Persia, Russian Turkestan, and Cashmere. 

 Winters in South Africa, where it is said that a few remain to breed. 



