SYSTEMATIC LIST OF BRITISH BIRDS. 



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VOLUME II 





Order CYPSELI 



STATUS 



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Family CYPSELLD^] 





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Genus APUS Scopoli 

 Apus melba melba (L.) 

 The Alpine Swift. 



Vagrant .... 



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Apus apus apus (L.) 

 The Swift. 



Summer-visitor, breeds : also 

 passage-migrant as in 0. Heb- 





Genus CHiETURA Stephens 

 Chmtura caudacuta caudacuta (Lath.) 

 The Needle-tailed Swift. 



rides, Shetlands, Orkneys where 

 non-breeder .... 



Two, England 



Order CAPRIMULGI 

 Family CAPRIMULGID^E 



Genus CAPRIMULGUS Linnaeus 



214. Caprimulgus europcsus europceus L. 



The Nightjar. 



215. Caprimulgus cegyptius cegyptius Licht. 



The Egyptian Nightjar. 



216. Caprimulgus ruficollis desertorum Erl. 



The Algerian Red-necked Nightjar. 



Summer-visitor, breeds, but only 

 vagrant Orkneys, Shetlands, O. 

 Hebrides .... 



One, England . 



One, England 



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Order MEROPES 

 Family MEROPID^E 

 Genus MEROPS Linnseus 

 217. Merops apiaster L. 

 The Bee- Eater. 



Vagrant (pair attempted 

 breed Scotland 1920) 



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Order UPUPil 

 Family UPUPIDyE 

 Genus UPUPA Linnseus 

 215. Upupa epops epops L. 

 The Hoopoe. 



Order CORACI^ 

 Family CORACIID^E 



Genus CORACIAS Linnaeus 

 21&. Coracias garrulus garrulus L. 



Passage -migrant (regular spring, 

 scarcer autumn) s. England, 

 where breeds occasionally : va- 

 grant elsewhere, fairly regular 

 s. Ireland .... 



The Roller. 



Vagrant, 

 land 



chiefly s. and e. Eng- 



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