. A dictionary of birds . ^, consisting chieflyof moths and cockchafers, in the evening-twilight. As the seasonadvances the song of the cock, from its singularity, attracts attentionamid all rural sounds. It seems to be always uttered when thebird is at rest, though the contrary has been asserted, and is thecontinuous repetition of a single burring note, as of a thin lath fixedat one end and in a state of vibration at the other, loud enoughto reach in still weather a distance of half-a-mile or more. On the. IoooLNightjar, Caprimulgus eitropieus. wing, while toying with its mate, or performing
. A dictionary of birds . ^, consisting chieflyof moths and cockchafers, in the evening-twilight. As the seasonadvances the song of the cock, from its singularity, attracts attentionamid all rural sounds. It seems to be always uttered when thebird is at rest, though the contrary has been asserted, and is thecontinuous repetition of a single burring note, as of a thin lath fixedat one end and in a state of vibration at the other, loud enoughto reach in still weather a distance of half-a-mile or more. On the. IoooLNightjar, Caprimulgus eitropieus. wing, while toying with its mate, or performing its rapid evolutionsround the trees where it linds its food, the bird has the habit ofoccasionally producing another and equally extraordinary sound,sudden and short, but somewhat resembling that made by swinginga thong in the air, though in what way this noise is produced is notascertained. In general its flight is silent, but at times whendisturbed from its repose, its wings may be heard to smite Nightjar or, to use perhaps its commoner English ,^ passes the day in slumber, crouching on the ground orperching on a tree—in the latter case sitting not across the branchbut lengthways, with its head lower than its body. In hot weather,however, its song may sometimes be heard by day and even atnoontide, but it is then uttered, as it were, drowsily, and without the ^ Otlier English names of the bird are Churn-Owl, Evejar, Fern-OwI, Night-Hawk, Puckeridge and Wheel-bird—the
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