





24 THE NATURAL HISTORY 
fe inhabits equally Europe and. América : ‘ties 
in the evening, feeding on moths, and nocturnal 
“inkeds, particularly “the Scarabeus Melolentha, 
or Dor Beetle. - It is migratory, ftays only from 
the end of May to the end of Auguft in the 
northern, and until the end of September in the | 
fouthern parts of the ifland, ee 
aC has two notes, the one a fharp fqueak, sis 
At utters as it purfues its mate; the other refeme 
_ ‘bles as mentioned before, the humming of a (pine 
~ ming wheel. It not only makes this noife as it 
flies, but often begins it in the evening, fitung oa 
-a bare bough, with its head lower than the tail, 
and quivering the lower mandible, The noit 
jatrs fo much, as to occafion a fenfible vibration | 
on any little building, on which the bird es 
chance to alight, — 
Mr, White obferved a Goatfucker slaying 
round a large oak, which {warmed with Scata- 
‘beei Solftitiales, or Fern Chaffers ; its quick evO-_ 
lutions, and powers of wing, exceeding, if poflie , 
dle, thofe of the Swallow genus, He faw it 
diftin@ly more than once put out its fhort leg 
whilft flying, and by bending its neck, delivel 
fomething into its mouth, probably fome of the 
Chaffers which it might catch with its feet: thisy 
Mr, White thinks, = jualy account for the 
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