206 OUR SUMMER MIGRANTS. 



been seen about the vessel on the two or three 

 days preceding. On the evening of the ist of 

 June, two were killed and others seen in the 

 once celebrated but now barren and uninhabited 

 island of Delos. 



The Nightjar, although tolerably dispersed 

 throughout North Africa during certain months 

 of the year, does not, apparently, travel so far 

 down the east or west coasts as many of our 

 summer migrants do. In Egypt and Nubia, 

 according to Captain Shelley,^ it is only met 

 with as a bird of passage, but how much further 

 south it goes he does not say. Mr. Blanford 

 did not meet with it in Abyssinia, where its place 

 seems to be taken by two or three allied species.* 

 The same remark applies as we proceed east- 

 ward. In Syria and Palestine, Canon Tristram 

 did not observe the European Nightjar, but 

 found a smaller and lighter-coloured species, on 



1 "Birds of Egypt," p. 174. 



* " Observations on the Geology and Zoology of Abys- 

 sinia," p. 336. 



