NIGHTJAR. 
GCATSUCKER. DOR-HAWK. NIGHT-HAWK. FERN-OWL. 
WHEEL-BIRD. EUROPEAN GOATSUCKER. 
NOCTURNAL GOATSUCKER. CHURN-OWL. JAR-OWL. 
PUCKERIDGE. 
ADERYN Y DROELL, AND RHODWR, OF THE ANCIENT BRITISH. 
Caprimulgus Europeus, PENNANT. MontTacu. 
. punctatus, MEYER. 
Nyctichelidon Huropeus, RENNIE. 
Caprimulgus. Caper—A goat. Muigeo—To milk. 
flurepeus— European, 
Tue Nightjar may be looked upon as a kind of gigantic 
and. sombre Swallow, whose movements are made in the dusk 
of night, instead of in the glare of day. 
It is found throughout Hurope—in Spain, France, Germany, 
and Italy, Russia, Siberia, and Kamtschatka, Denmark, Nor- 
way, and the rest of Scandinavia, and in Holland, but rarely. 
In Africa also, and in Asia as far as the East Indies. 
I¢ is tolerably common in all the southern counties of 
England, and also indeed in the northern ones. 
In Yorkshire it frequents the sea coast near Scarborough, 
according to Mr. Patrick Hawkridge, and has been not un- 
frequent near Halifax, Hebden-Bridge, and other districts. I 
have seen it in the neighbourhood of Doncaster, in the wood 
called ‘Sir William Cooke’s wood, between that town and 
Armthorpe. It also occurs near Norwich, in fir plantations, 
as I am informed by Mr. Charles Muskett, who adds, ‘Three 
years since, I found a young bird on the ground in a heathy 
