. A general history of birds . n Hampshire, calledalso the Puckeridge, as being thought to occasion the distemper,called by that name, among young calves; but this complaint is owingto a far different It is not to be wondered that the Frenchcall this, among other names, Craupaud volant (Flying Toad), sincethe note is sometimes so exactly like the grating noise of that reptile,as hardly to be distinguished from it. The Nightingale has also, atthe end of its stay with us, a sort of note, which does not ill resembleit. This Species is found on the Continent as far north as Sondmor, * The
. A general history of birds . n Hampshire, calledalso the Puckeridge, as being thought to occasion the distemper,called by that name, among young calves; but this complaint is owingto a far different It is not to be wondered that the Frenchcall this, among other names, Craupaud volant (Flying Toad), sincethe note is sometimes so exactly like the grating noise of that reptile,as hardly to be distinguished from it. The Nightingale has also, atthe end of its stay with us, a sort of note, which does not ill resembleit. This Species is found on the Continent as far north as Sondmor, * The Welsh call it by the same—Aderyn y Droell, meaning Wheel Bird. f The Puckeridge is a disease of the back, occasioned by the larva of the Oestrus Bovis,which, as it increases in size, forms a large, inflammatory, and painful swelling; and whenseveral are in the same subject, will frequently cause the death of the younger animal; andsometimes prove very afflicting, if not fatal, even to the full grown and adult one. PI. CXI ^ic/er/ fe%^«z^. GOATSUCKER. 335 and is common all over Siberia and Kamtschatka, not only in theforests, but in the open countries, where it meets with rocks, or highbanks for shelter. According to Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles, thereare two Varieties of this bird in Sumatra, one with brighter andmore marked colours than the other; they are very abundant in theneighbourhood of Bencoolen, and are always seen flying in theevening; they make no nests, but lay the eggs on the bare ground,as before mentioned, and are called there Sang Sogan. 2—LONG-TAILED GOATSUCKER—Pl. cxiv. LENGTH, from the point of the bill to the end of the twomiddle tail feathers, thirteen inches and a half. Bill broad, short,depressed, horn-coloured, with a black point; at the gape severallong bristles, some longer than the bill: crown of the head mottledash, down the middle some larger blotchings of chocolate; the hindpart of the neck brownish grey, minutely spotted with bla
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