Identifier: britishzoology01penn (find matches)
Title: British zoology
Year: 1776 (1770s)
Authors: Pennant, Thomas, 1726-1798
Subjects: Zoology -- Great Britain
Publisher: Warrington, Printed by W. Eyres, for B. White, London
Contributing Library: MBLWHOI Library
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lin. I. 8.Dorhawk, accipiter Cantha- rophagus, Charlton ex. 79.Le Tette Chevre ou Cra- paud volant. Erijfon au. II. 470. Tab, 44. Covaterra. Zinanniy 94. ScO poll. No. 254.Caprimulgus europeus. Lin, fyji. 346.Natfkrafa, Natflcarra, Quall- knarren. Faun. Suec. fp, 274.Hirundo cauda asquabili. H. caprimulga. Klein au. 81.Nat-Ravn, Nat-Skade, M- ten-bakke. Brun. 293.Mucken Ilecker, Nachtrabb. Kram. 38J.Br. Zool. 97. Tab. R. R. i. Jy^LEIN hath placed this bird in the fwallow•^ tribe, and ftyies it a fwallow with an undi-vided tail. It has mod of the charadlers of thatgenus; a very fmall bill, wide mouth, fmall legs.It is alfo a bird of paflage ; agrees in food withthis genus, and the manner of taking it: differs inthe time of preying, flying only by night, fo withfome juftice may be called a no£furnal fwallow.It feeds on moths, knats, dorrs or chaffers; fromwhich Charlton calls it a Dorr-hawk^ its food beingentirely that fpecies of beetle during the month of M-fcF. GOATSUCKEKS. j\rej^2
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Class II. G O A T - S U C K E R. 417 July^ the period of that infeds * flight in thiscountrf. This bird makes but a (hort (lay with us : ap- Migrates,pears the latter end of May ^ and difappears in thenorthern parts of ourifland the latter end o^ Auguft^but in the fouthern flays above a month later.It inhabits all parts of Great Britain^ from Corn-wal to the county of Rofs, Mr. ScopoU feems tocredit the report of their fucking the teats of goats,an error delivered down from the days of Ariftotle, Its notes are mod fingular : the loudeft fo much NerEs.refembles that of a large fpinning wheel, that theWeljb call this bird aderyn y droell^ or the wheelbird. It begins its fong mod punctually on theclofe of day, fitting ufually on a bare bough withthe head lower than the tail, as exprefled in theupper figure in the plate; the lower jaw quiveringwith the efforts. The noife is fo very violent, asto give a fenfible vibration to any little building itchances to ali.ght on, and emit this fpecie

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