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every year, but in small numbers. He gives his earliest 
date as 21st May (1889). About 1887 Mr. Graves saw one 
on the ferny slope of Greeba Mountain. In September 
1890 one was killed in a shed at Messrs. Quiggin and 
Co.’s works, the Lake, Douglas, and another passed through 
Mr. Adams’s hands in the autumn of 1892. In May or 
June 1895 Messrs. H. 8. Clarke and D. Nelson found a 
nest on Gob-y-Volley, at the entrance to Sulby Glen, with 
two eggs. (By some slip the number appeared as three in 
Mr. Kermode’s record in the Y. LZ. M. list.) And ‘about 
November’ (unusually late, if correct) one was obtained on 
the outskirts of Douglas. On 14th September 1899 Mr. 
Kermode had one brought him from Sulby Glen, and in 
the same year Mr. E. B. Gawne, of Kentraugh, found a 
young bird which he released. In September 1901 Mr. 
Adams had on hand no fewer than four, all recently 
obtained in Man, and in 1903 Mr. Kermode gave two 
specimens to the Ramsey Museum. Mr. Crellin has flushed 
Nightjars about the edges of the Ayre. 
Considering its habits and the nature of its haunts, the 
Nightjar is likely more common with us than the above 
record would seem to indicate. 
The Nightjar is found in all or nearly all the counties of 
Great Britain. In Ireland it is pretty well distributed, and 
is found in Antrim and Down, but not plentifully. In 
Galloway it is not numerous, but in the north-west of 
England is described as pretty common, and breeding on 
the Solway and some south Lancashire mosses, as well as 
on the fells. Stragglers have been noted in Orkney and 
Shetland and (once only) in the Outer Hebrides. 
