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valled richness, and power of the Nightingale’s 
song have been long celebrated, and its effect is 
still further increased by the hour at which it is 
heard, during the silence of a calm summer’s night. - 
The nest of this favourite bird, which is found on 
the ground, is constructed of withered oak leaves, 
and is lined with dry grass. The eggs, of which 
there are not more than four or five, are of a pale 
olive brown, often tinged with greyish blue. 
NIGHT: J AR: 
Fern Ow, oR GOATSUCKER. 
CaPrimuLeus Evropazvs, Liz. * 
The Night Jar is a periodical visitant to this 
country, in which it arrives about the end of May, 
and from which it departs in September, or early 
in October. Its habits are somewhat peculiar. 
It flies in the dusk of the evening in gloomy wea- 
ther, or by moonlight in the shade of woods, feed- 
ing on insects, especially moths and beetles, which 
it seizes on the wing. It produces a whirring noise 
at intervals, like the sound of a spinning-wheel, 
and occasionally emits a shrill whistle. During the 
day it rests till after sunset on the ground among 
furze or fern, or perched lengthways upon the 
