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NIGHTJAR. 



GOATSUCKER. DOR-HAWK. XIGHT-HAWK. PERX-OWL. 



WHEEL-BIRD. EUROPEAN GOATSUCKER. 



XOCTURXAL GOATSUCKER. CHURX-OWL. JAR-OWL. 



PUCKERIDGE. 



ADERYX Y DROELL, AXD RHODWR, OF THE AXCIEXT BRITISH. 



Cuprimulgus Europ&us, PENNANT. MONTAGU. 



" punctatus, MXTBB, 



Nyctichelidon Europceus, KENNIE. 



Caprimulgus. Caper A goat. Mulgeo r o milk. 



Europceus European. 



THE 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 Europe 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. 



It 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- 

 irequent 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 



