Identifier: royalnaturalhist47lyde (find matches)
Title: The royal natural history
Year: 1893 (1890s)
Authors: Lydekker, Richard, 1849-1915 Sclater, Philip Lutley, 1829-1913 Frostick, W. B., former owner. DSI Brooks, W. T., former owner. DSI
Subjects: Zoology Natural history
Publisher: London and New York : Frederick Warne & Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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^ vermiculated with black: the scapulars are longitudinallystreaked with black and ochraceous bufi: (piills with a rufous-l)ufi spcjt on bothwebs, the three outer primaries with a large white spot on the iinit-r web; two 42 PICARIAN BIRDS. outer tail-feathers also with a large white spot at the end of the inner web;under surface ochraceous buff, with blackish bars on the abdomen and the under-wing and tail-coverts; the breast marked like the upper surface of the body; andthe throat blackish, narrowly barred with rufous buft, and spotted with white.The total length is lOi inches. The red-necked nightjar (C. rujicollis) is a largerbird, measuring 12 inches in length. It has large white spots on the quills andouter tail-feathers, but differs in having the hind-neck rufous, forming a broad
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COMMON AND RED-NECKED NIGHTJARS (f liat. size). collar, which has gained the species its familiar name of red-necked. It inhabitsthe countries of South-Western Europe and Northern Africa, nesting in Spain,Algeria, and Morocco; migrating occasionally into Southern France; and it haseven reached Great Britain on one occasion, but its winter-quarters are unknown.The food of the nightjar consists entirely of insects, in pursuit of which the birdmay be seen flying over the heather or the fields in the twilight, often, as it flies,producing a clapping noise, apparently by striking its wings together above itsback, like a pigeon. The churring note which the birds make is familiar to all NIGHTJARS. 43 dwellers in the country, and hence its name of churn-owl, l)y which it is knownin many districts. Waterton has recorded the notes of one of tlie species inDemerara as represented by the words, work away I work, work, work aivay !Another calls -who are you? who, tvho are you? while another cries

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