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Updated: June 7, 2025
A nightjar fled from the tree overhead to the accompaniment of strange noises; and an unseen jackal, who had crept up to the very huts pessimistically, in search of anything awful, or offal, fled with a startled scurry. Apparently something with claws was trying to scrape away the corrugated iron. Came then a scrawling scrape, and a thump. Then silence.
"Mo-poke! mo-poke!" croaked the Nightjar, farther and farther in the distance, as it flew away. "What a pity!" said the Kangaroo, as she returned to the cave, "the 'possum made that unlucky joke of telling the Nightjar it has a touching voice, and can sing: everyone has to suffer for that joke of the 'possum's.
Pericles listened; wearing an aching expression, as if he were sending one eye to look up into his brain for a judgement disputed in that sovereign seat. Still she held on, and then gave a tremulous, rich, contralto note. "Oh! the human voice!" cried Adela, overcome by the transition of tones. "Like going from the nightingale to the nightjar," said Arabella. Mrs.
That's all the rules, I think." "I'm glad we've got the tennis lawn," said Myra; "it's much smoother. Do you prefer the right-hand court, dear, or the left-hand?" "We shall be very close to Nature to-night," said Archie. "Now we shall know whether it really is the nightjar, or Simpson gargling." We were very close to Nature that night, but in the early morning still closer.
That sounds wonderful as a fairy story come true, does it not? And like the knight in some old fairy tale, could not Ardea's new Soldier "live happily forever after"? There are many accounts of the flying clown, in books, nearly all of which refer to him as bull-bat or nighthawk, and a member of the Goatsucker or Nightjar family.
Dor-hawk may be a name for the nightjar, but properly dorr is not; and if it were, it would be forbidden by daw so long as it neglected its trill. 'The pigeons flaunted round his door', The whole line quoted from p. 7 is obscure, because a nightjar would never be recognized by the description of a bird that utters a crackling cry when flying.
"I say, Nightjar," she said, "I'm a little sad to-night, please go and sing elsewhere." "Ah!" said the Nightjar, "I'm so glad I've given you deliciously dismal thoughts with my song! I'm a great artist, and can touch all hearts. That is my mission in the world: when all the bush is quiet, and everyone has time to be miserable, I make them more so isn't it lovely to be like that?"
Though storms often raged during the day, the wind almost invariably blew itself out towards night, leaving a dead calm, broken only by the tramp of sentries or the distant rattling hum of a nightjar. It is a brave man who, having determined this mode of exit, leaves his hut when others are sleeping, and vanishes.
It seemed terribly lonesome and wild. When the Kangaroo spoke she remembered everything, and they both sat up and talked a little. "Mo-poke! mo-poke!" sang the Nightjar in the distance. "I wish the Nightjar wouldn't make that noise when one wants to sleep," said the Kangaroo. "It hasn't got any voice to speak of, and the tune is stupid.
The bird-stuffer in Alderney had some wings of Nightjars nailed up behind his door which had been shot in that Island by himself. Professor Ansted includes the Nightjar in his list, but only marks it as occurring in Guernsey and Sark. There are two specimens, a male and female, in the Museum, but no date as to time of their occurrence. SWIFT. Cypselus apus, Linnaeus.
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