. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. I'r n. 'Ai^ G O AT-S U C K E R. The EUROPEAN GOAT-SUCKER*. UEttgoulevent, Buff. Europfsus, Linn. Gmel. &c. Sec. The 2V/^/6/ ^«r*;;, Sib'oald. The Dorr-havck, Goaf-fucking Oxvl, or Ni^ht "Jan, Charletfin. In Shropfhlre, the Fern-Ow/, and in Vorklhire, the Cb:.rft-Ow/, Rav. The N'gif Hawk, Edwards. The Nocturnal Goat-Jlcker, Penn. ^I^IIE Goat-fucker feeds cbieHy on no(£turnal JL infers -f*. It begins to wheel only a little before • Ariflotle calls
. The natural history of birds [microform] : from the French of the Count de Buffon. Ornithology; Birds; Ornithologie; Oiseaux. I'r n. 'Ai^ G O AT-S U C K E R. The EUROPEAN GOAT-SUCKER*. UEttgoulevent, Buff. Europfsus, Linn. Gmel. &c. Sec. The 2V/^/6/ ^«r*;;, Sib'oald. The Dorr-havck, Goaf-fucking Oxvl, or Ni^ht "Jan, Charletfin. In Shropfhlre, the Fern-Ow/, and in Vorklhire, the Cb:.rft-Ow/, Rav. The N'gif Hawk, Edwards. The Nocturnal Goat-Jlcker, Penn. ^I^IIE Goat-fucker feeds cbieHy on no(£turnal JL infers -f*. It begins to wheel only a little before • Ariflotle calls it A»y*0>5X«{, from At|, a goat, and Cxa^w, to milk : The name which Pliny bellows is a liteial tranflation of this, Caprmulgus. Hence, too, are derived many of its defignations in the modern languages: In Italian, Succhia Caprc\ in rreuch, Tctts- Chet're i in German, Gei/s-Melcher, Miich-Zitgen Suger, Kinder- Mehhery and in Norwegian, Gtde-MaUhtr. As it never appears but in the twilight, this circumftance has alfo procured it a clafs of names. In Greek, Ntxl»xo|!a|; in Latin, Fur NoSurnus; in Eng- lifli, Nig^t-Raven; in Italian, Nettela; in Germvin, Nadt-Scl'ade, Nacht-Rueblin, Nucht-Vogel; in Danilh, Nat-Rann, Nat-^kc, ; in S'.vdifti, Nattfiraefiva, Uattjkiarra, It is alfo called Co'va-Terra (ground-hatcher) in Italian; Chajfe-Crapaud (hunter-toad) in French ; Hacht - Sch^v^dbe (night - fwallow) and Grofs -Bartigt Schwalbe (great-bearded fwallow) in German. M. do Montbeillard, author of this article, remarks with great juflict, that the w^m^s ^ Goat-fuchr, "^ FlyUig-toaii^ ^ Great Black- bird, '^Kight CroiAjy and ^ SqucirL-iaiied S-iL-allo'w, ought to be re- jeftcd as founded on prejudice and inaccurate obfervation. The firft of thcfc appellations, though ancient and generally admitted, 1 Tette-Cle'vrc ; * CrapauJ P'tlan:; % Grand IdtrU \ 4 Corhcau tU Nuit j 5 //;• rdJelli a y^eui Carr/c. II f Such as moths, gnats, dorrs or chaffers, beetles, mciy-bugs, and n
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