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Pheasants and Partridges! That of " Goatsucker" 

 is even more widely prevailing, not only in our own 

 country, but it has an equivalent in almost every 

 European language, in some cases dating from a 



The Nightjar. 



very remote antiquity. Needless to say that this 

 appellation has proved even more fatal, and has 

 caused the poor bird needless persecution in many 

 other countries than ours, owing to the absurd super- 

 stition it describes and fosters of the Nightjar's 

 utterly fictitious habit of sucking the teats of cows 



