136 INSECTIV. CAPRIMULGUS. Goarsucxer. 
Kuropean Goatsucker.—Caprimulgus europzus, 
Linn. 
PLATE 42*. 
Caprimulgus europzeus, Linn. Syst. 1. p. 346. 1. 
Fau. Suec. No. 274.—Gmel. Syst. 1. p. 1027.—Lath. Ind. Ornith. v. 2. 
p- 584. 5.—Raii, Syn. p. 26. A. 1.— Will. p. 70. t. 14.—Briss. 2. p. 470. 1. 
t. 44. 
Caprimulgus punctatus, Meyer, Tasschenb. Deut. v. 1. p. 284. 
L’Engoulevent, Buff: Ois. v. 6. p. 512.—Id. Pl. Enl. 193. 
L’Engoulevent ordinaire, Temm. Man. d’Ornith. Tagschlafer.— Bechst. 
Naturg. Deut. v. 3. p. 940.—Frisch. t. 100. - 
Geitemelker, Sep. Nederl, Vég. v. 1. t. . p. 59. 
Nocturnal Goatsucker, Br. Zool. 2. No. 173. t. 59. 
European Goatsucker, Arct. Zool. 2. p. 437. A Will. (Ang.) p. 107.— 
Albin. 1. t. 10.—White’s Hist. Selb. p. 62. 94.—Lath. Syn. 4. p. 593. 5.— 
Id. Supp. p. 194.—Lewin’s Br. Birds, 3. t. 127.—Mont. Ornith. Dict.— 
Id. Supp.—Pult. Cat. Dorset. p. 13.—Wale. Syn. 2. t. 255.—Don. Br. 
Birds, 3. t. 67. 
Night Jar, Bewick’s Br. Birds, v. 1. p. t. 262. 
Provincial, Dor-Hawk, Fern Owl, Night-Hawk, Jar-Ovl, 
Churn-Owl, Wheel-bird. 
Periodical © The Goatsucker is a summer periodical visitant, arriving 
visitant- in Britain about the end of May, or beginning of June, and 
departing in September, or in the commencement of the en- 
suing month. 
It is rather impartially distributed throughout the king- 
Haunts. dom, and is found in woods, or narrow wooded valleys, par- 
ticularly in the immediate neighbourhood of meadows or dry 
tracts of pasture-ground. It is also very frequently met with 
in our upland districts, in those extensive fern-beds that clothe 
the slopes of grassy eminences, from whence has arisen its 
provincial name of Fern-Owl. It is impatient of the glare 
of daylight, and remains at rest upon the ground, or perched 
lengthwise upon the horizontal branch of a birch or other 
tree, till after sunset; when it sallies forth in pursuit of its 
Food. food, consisting of the Melalonthee, Scarabeei, and the larger 
species of Phalznz. 
It flies with its capacious mouth fully extended, and as the 
