96 A HAND -LIST OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. North-west Africa, south Europe to 

 Pyrenees, Alps and Crimea, islands in Mediterranean, Asia Minor 

 to Caucasus, Persia to Turkestan, Himalayas and high mountains 

 of Indian Peninsula, Ceylon. Winter- quarters uncertain ; observed 

 in south Arabia and northern Sahara on migration. Replaced by 

 allied races in mountains of tropical and south Africa. 



APUS APUS 



200. Apus apus apus (L.) THE SWIFT. 



HIRUNDO APUS Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, i, p. 192 (1758 Europe. 



Restricted typical locality : Sweden). 



Cypselus apus (Linnaeus), Yarrell, n, p. 364 ; Saunders, p. 261. 



DISTRIBUTION. British Isles. Summer-resident (end April to end 

 Aug., Sept., and Oct., exceptionally later). Generally distributed 

 except in north-west Scotland, where does not breed ; I. Hebrides, 

 where rarely breeds ; O. Hebrides, Orkneys and Shetlands, where 

 does not breed and is an uncommon, though fairly regular, migrant. 

 These last must be passage-migrants, but there is practically no 

 other evidence of passage-migration. 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. Europe generally from about lat. 70 in 

 Scandinavia and Archangel in north Russia southwards, in winter 

 as far as south Africa and Madagascar. Replaced by somewhat 

 doubtful forms in south Europe and north-west Africa, and by more 

 distinct ones in various parts of west, north, and middle Asia. 



CENTURA CAUDACUTA 



201. Chaetura caudacuta caudacuta (Lath.) THE NEEDLE- 

 TAILED SWIFT. 



HIRUNDO CAUDACUTA Latham, Ind. Orn., Suppl., p. Ivii, (1801 



Australia). 



Acanthyllis caudacuta (Latham), Yarrell, n, p. 371 (footnote), in, p. ix ; 



Saunders, p. 265. 



DISTRIBUTION. England. Two. One Great Horkesley (Essex) 

 July 8, 1846 (Zool., 1846, p. 1492). One (said to have been with 

 another) Ringwood (Hants) July 26 or 27, 1879 (Proc. Zool. Soc., 

 1880, p. 1 ; Zool., 1880, p. 81). 



DISTRIBUTION. Abroad. East Siberia, Mongolia, Manchuria, Sac- 

 halin, and Japan, in winter in Australia and Tasmania. Replaced 

 by G. caudacuta nudipes in the Himalayas. 



CAPRIMULGUS EUROP^US 



202. Caprimulgus europaeus europaeus L. THE NIGHTJAR. 



CAPRIMULGUS EUROPAEUS Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., ed. x, i, p. 193 (1758 



' ' Europe and America," the latter a mistake. Restricted typical locality : 



Sweden). 



Caprimulgus europceus Linnseus, Yarrell, n, p. 377 ; Saunders, p. 267. 



