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plentiful enough to count 
for very much in the 
de warfare against his insect 
enemies. 
One peculiarity of this bird is the extraordinary width 
of the gape, the beak being open so widely when an insect 
is being pursued that the head looks as though it were cut 
almost entirely in two. The sides of the mouth are fringed 
with stiff bristles, so that when once a victim is seized it is 
enclosed in a kind of trap from which there is no escape. 
During the day-time the Nightjar sleeps upon the ground, 
generally under the shelter of a clump of bracken. with the 
