NIGHTJAR 



GOAT - SUCKER DOR - HAWK NIGHT - HAWK FERN - OWL-- 

 WHEEL-BIRD CHURN - OWL JAR-OWL PUCKERIDGE. 



PLATE LVIII. 



Caprimulgus Europatus, . . PENNANT. MONTAGU. 

 Caprimulgus punctatus^ . . MEYER. 



THE Nightjar seldom arrives before the middle of May. 

 The nest, if a few chance leaves in a hollow of the 

 ground can be so called, is found in the open rides and 

 walks in woods, as also in their bordering neighbourhood, 

 in moors and barren places, among heath, grass, or fern, 

 from the latter of which one of its secondary names is 

 derived. It is frequently placed at the foot of a tree or 

 a bush. 



The eggs are generally two in number, but three have 

 been known in two instances : in one by Mr. Eddison, and 

 in the other by the Rev. J. Pemberton Bartlett, namely, 

 in the latter case, two young birds and an egg. They are 

 very beautiful, and of nearly a perfect oval shape, the 

 ground colour being white, which is most elegantly clouded 

 and streaked with bluish grey and yellowish brown. The 

 eggs are laid in the beginning, and the young are hatched in 

 the middle, of July. Saunders, however, records eggs being 



found recently laid as late as August, but as only one 

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