caprimulgi

Updated: August 20, 2026

Item, some cynamologi, argatiles, caprimulgi, thynnunculs, onocrotals, or bitterns, with their wide swallows, stymphalides, harpies, panthers, dorcasses, or bucks, cemades, cynocephalises, satyrs, cartasans, tarands, uri, monopses, or bonasi, neades, steras, marmosets, or monkeys, bugles, musimons, byturoses, ophyri, screech-owls, goblins, fairies, and griffins.

François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5

Those that escape the caprimulgi fall a prey to the crows, on the morning succeeding their flight. The strange peculiarity of the omnivorous ravages of the white ants is that they shrink from the light; in all their expeditions for providing food they construct a covered pathway of moistened clay, and their galleries above ground extend to an incredible distance from the central nest.

Sir James Emerson Tennent - Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon