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Some of the nightingale fanciers alfo prefer a 

 Surry bird to thofe of Middle/ex *. 



Thefe differences in the fong of birds of the fame 

 fpecies cannot perhaps be compared to any thing 

 more appofite, than the varieties of provincial 

 dialects. 



The nightingale feems to have been fixed upon, 

 almoft universally, as the mod capital of finging 

 birds, which fuperiority it certainly may boldly 

 challenge : one reafon, however, of this bird's be- 

 ing more attended to than others is, that it fmgs in 

 the night f. 



* Mr. Henjhaw informs us, that nightingales in Denmark 

 are not heard till May, and that their notes are not (o fweet 

 or various as with us. Dr. Birch's Hiflory of the Royal So- 

 ciety, Vol. III. p. 189. Whilft Mr. Fletcher (who was mini- 

 ster from Q^ Elizabeth to Rufta) fays, that the nightingales in 

 that part of the world have a finer note than ours. See 

 Fletcher's Life, in the Biographia Britannic a. 



I never could believe what is commonly afferted, that the 

 Czar Peter was at a confiderable expence to introduce finging 

 birds near Peterfturgh ; becaufe it appears, by the Fauna 

 Suecica, that they have in thofe latitudes moft of the fame 

 birds with thofe of England. 



t The woodlark and reedfparrow fing likewife in the 

 night ; and from hence, in the neighbourhood of Shrew/- 

 bury, the latter hath obtained the name of the willow-nigh- 

 tingale. Nightingales, however, and thefe two other birds, 

 fing alfo in the day, but are not then diftinguifhed in the ge- 

 neral concert. 



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