call of the Corn-Crake, the music of the Nightingale, 

 and the occasional trill of the Grasshopper Warbler. 



The Nightjar makes no nest, but generally deposits 

 its two eggs (which are, in my opinion, about the most 

 beautiful of British productions of their kind) on a bare 

 spot amongst ferns, stunted heather, or brambles, not 

 uncommonly upon open wastes strewn with fragments of 

 flint and chalk, with barely any vegetation near the 

 breeding-place. I hope and believe that the advance of 

 education has eradicated the ancient superstition that 

 gave the name of Goatsucker to this bird, but to my own 

 personal knowledge it has been, and is still I fear, looked 

 upon by game-keepers as a bird of prey, called a Night 

 Hawk, and treated accordingly. I need hardly tell those 

 who have had patience enough to read this dissertation, 

 that the Nightjar is not only a perfectly harmless, but 

 also a most useful bird. 



