APPENDIX. 699 



And here I mud again repeat, that what I 

 defcribe is from a caged nightingale, becaufe thofe 

 which we hear in the fpring are fo rank, that they 

 feldom fing any thing but fhort and loud jerks, 

 which coniequently cannot be compared to the 

 notes of a caged bird, as the inftrument is over- 

 ftrained. 



I mud alio here obferve, that my nightingale 

 was a very capital bird •, for fome of them are fo 

 vallly inferior, that the bird-fanciers will not keep 

 them, branding them with the name of French- 

 men *. 



I have m.ide no mention of the bulfinch in this table, which 

 is commonly confidered as a finging bird ; becaufe its wild 

 note, without inftruttions, is a moll jarring and difagreeable 

 noife. ' 



I have li'kewife omitted * the redftart (which is called by 

 the French RoJ/Ignol de MurailleJ, as I am not fufficiently 

 acquainted with its fong, though it is admired by many; I 

 mould rather conceive, however, with Zinanni, that there is 

 no very extraordinary merit in the notes. 



The London bird-catchers alio fell fometimes the yellow 

 hammer, twite and brambling f as finging birds ; but none 

 of thefe will come within my definition of what may be deem- 

 ed fo. 



* One mould fuppofe from this, that the nightingale-catch- 

 er had heard much of the French mulic ; which is poffibly 

 the cafe, as fome of them live in Spittal-fields. 



* II culo ranzo e un ucello, (per quanto dicono) molto csnoro, ma 

 io tale non lo ftimo. Delle uova e del nidi, p, 53. 



f They call this bird a kate. 



But 



