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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. Eed-necked Nightjar. 



Caprimulg-US ruficollis Temminch, Man. d'Orn. 2nd ed. 



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

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



Harterf, Cat. Birds B. M. tA. 1892, p. 531 ; Saunders, 



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



iJM^coM'is='with a red neck. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Rare Visitor, which 

 has occurred once : — near Newcastle, Oct. 18.56. 



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 Niqutjak. 



CaprimuIg'US seg-yptius Lichtenstein, Verz. Doubl. 1823, 



p. 59 : Egypt. 

 Caprimulgus segyptius Licht.; Hartert, Cat. Birds B. II. xvi. 

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

 ^jt/j) tilts = Egyptian. 



Distribution in the British Islands. — A Rare Visitor, which 

 has occurred once : — at Rainworth, Nottinghamshire, June 

 1883. 



