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PHILOMELA LUSCINL\. THE BRAKE 

 NIGHTINGALE. 



Motacilla Luscinia. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 328. 



Sylvia Luscinia. Lath. Ind. Orn. U. 506. 



Nightingale. Mont. Orn. Diet. 



Bee-fin, Rossignol. Sylvia Luscinia. Temm. Man. d'Orn. I. 195. 



Nightingale. Philomela Luscinia. Selb. Illustr. I. 206. 



Sylvia Luscinia. Nightingale. Jen, Brit. Vert, An, 107. 



The upper parts reddish-brown^ the tail hrownish-red ; the lower 

 parts pale greyish-brown^ the throat and belly whitish. 



Male, — The Nightingale, unrivalled as it may be as to its 

 vocal powers, is one of the most homely of our native birds in its 

 attire. In size it is somewhat larger than the Blaekcapped and 

 Garden Warblers, which it greatly resembles in form, although 

 its bill and tarsi are more elongated. The former organ is of 

 moderate length, straight, rather broader than high at the base, 

 compressed toward the end ; the upper mandible with the dor- 

 sal outline declinate and slightly convex, the sides sloping and 

 convex, the ridge narrow, the edges sharp and slightly over- 

 lapping, the tip declinate, acute, with a faint notch ; the lower 

 mandible with the angle of moderate length and rather nar- 

 row, the dorsal line ascending and straight, the ridge round- 

 ed, the sides convex, the edges a little inflected, the tip rather 



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