THE NATURAL HISTORY 
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It inhabits equally Europe and America ; flics 
in the evening, feeding on moths, and nocturnal 
infedls, particularly the Scarabeus Melolentba, 
or Dor Beetle. It is migratory, days only from 
the end of May to the end of Augult in the 
northern, and until the end of September in the 
fouthern parts of the ifland. 
It has two notes, the one a fharp fqueak, this 
it utters as it purfues its mate ; the other relem- 
bles as mentioned before, the humming of a fpin- 
ning wheel. It not only makes this noife as it 
Hies, but often begins it in the evening, fitting on 
a bare bough, with its head lower than the tail, 
and quivering the lower mandible. T he noife 
prrs fo much, as to occafion a fenfible vibration 
on any lnt'e building, on which the bird may 
chance to alight. 
Mr. White obferved a Goatfucker playing 
round a large oak, which fwarmed with Scara- 
baei Solllitiales, or Fern Chaffers ; its quick evo¬ 
lutions, and powers of wing, exceeding, if poffi- 
ble, thofe of the Swallow genus. He faw it 
diftindtly more than once put out its fhort leg 
■whilft Hying, and by bending its neck, deliver 
fomethlng into its mouth, probably fome of the 
Chaffers which it might catch with its feet: this, 
Mr, White thinks, may juftly account for the 
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