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and Orkney Islands, where it is an irregular visitor, and in 

 the Outer Hebrides, where it has been recorded twice. 



General Distribution. The Nightjar inhabits Europe 

 ranging in Scandinavia to 63 N. latitude, and thence 

 through Russia eastwards to the Ural Mountains ; south- 

 wards throughout central Europe. On migration it visits 

 Africa and ranges in winter to Cape Colony. In Spain, 

 Corsica, Sardinia, part of Italy, and the Balkan Peninsula, 

 as well as in north Africa, it is represented by a smaller 

 race, C. e. meridionalis. In north-east Africa and southern, 

 western, and central Asia other paler races occur. 



Caprimulgus ruficollis. RED-NECKED NIGHTJAR. 



CaprimulgUS ruficollis Temminck, Man. d'Orn. 2nd ed. 



i. 1820, p. 438 : Algeciras, S. Spain. 

 Caprimulgus ruficollis Temm. ; B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 75 ; 



Hartert, Cat. Birds B. M. xvi. 1892, p. 531; Sounders, 



Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 269. 



Ruficollis with a red neck. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Bare Visitor, which 

 has occurred once : near Newcastle, Oct. 1856. 



General Distribution. The Red-necked Nightjar ranges 

 from southern Spain and Portugal to Morocco ; it has 

 occurred in the south of France, Dalmatia, Malta, Sicily, and 

 Madeira. In Algeria and Tunisia, a paler form occurs 

 which has been separated as C. r. desertorum. 



Caprimulgus segyptius. EGYPTIAN NIGHTJAR. 



Caprimulg'US segyptius Lichtenstein, Verz. Doubl. 1823, 



p. 59 : Egypt. 

 Caprimulgus aegyptius LicTit. ; Hartert, Cat. Birds B. M. xvi. 



1892, p. 562 ; Sounders, Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 270. 

 JUgyptius = Egyptian. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Rare Visitor, which 

 has occurred once : at Rainworth, Nottinghamshire, June 

 1883. 



