THE TRUE NIGHT-JARS. 
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been recorded from Mansfield 
L nf t” ^r- Whitaker. It was shot there on 
fo ^ by no means an unlikely bird 
to occur in England, as it evidently wanders westwa^ on 
^‘'^stern home. One specimen has been 
obtained in Heligoland, three in Malta, and one in Sicily. 
Eange outsidetheBritisliMaads.— The home of this species is 
m the desert countries of Northern Africa from Algeria to 
Egypt and Nubia. Thence it ranges to the CaspiL, and 
eastwards to Turkestan and Afghanistan. Its occurrence with- 
in European limits is, as mentioned above, purely accidental 
It appears to winter in N. E. Africa. 
0 exception that the Isabelline Night-Jar is 
a bird of the deserts, it is very similar in habits to our common 
species, passing the day in retirement, when its sandy-coloured 
Fr to the ground around it, doubtless affords 
the bird entire protection from observation. Those travellers 
who have observed the species in North-eastern Africa, have 
remarked that several individuals are generally seen together 
but this IS probably during the season of migration only! 
Captain Shelley procured four males together in March and 
he thmks that the sexes, in all probability, migrate in flocks. 
1 his IS very likely, as Von Heuglin also remarks that the 
be^airf-mnaies"^^ 
Nest.--None ; a depression being formed in the sand or 
under the shade of a bush. 
*" number, very similar to those of our Common 
^ifow^^*"' tmd with the ground-colour creamy- 
III. RED-NECKED NIGHT-JAR. CAPRIMULGUS RUFICOLLIS. 
Caprimulgus ruficollis, Temm. Man. Orn. p ajS (1S20I • 
Newton, ed. Yarn ii. p. 386 (1874); Dresser, B. Eur iv! 
P- 633 > Pk 273 (1874) ; B. O. U. List Br. B. p. 73 (1883) ■ 
Seebohm Br B. ii. p. 317 (1884); Saunders, Man. Br. b' 
p. 259 (1889) ; Hartert, Cat. B. xvi. p. 531 (1892). 
Adult Hale — General colour above sandy-grey, mottled and 
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