296 



Sylvia luscinia {Linn.}, A. major {Gmel.), Lath. Ind. Orn. ii. p. 506 



(1790). 

 Motacilla pliilomela, Bechst. Naturg. DeutscM. iv. p. 536 (179o). 

 Sylvia pliilomela (Bechst.), Bechst". Orn. Taschenh. i. p. 167 (1802); 

 Wolf, Tiischenh. i. p. 222 (1810); Temm. Man. d'Orn. p. 106 

 (1815) ; Met/er, Vog. Liv- u. Esthl. i. p. 2 (1815) ; rieill. N. Diet. 

 cTHkt. Nat. xi. p. 254 (1817); Temm. Man. d'Orn. i. p. 196 

 (1820): Mcnrtr. Cut. Bats. Cauc. p. 33 (1832) ; Nordm. Bemid. 

 Toy. Buss, merid. iii. p. 137 (1840) ; Wenier, Atlas, Imectiv. 

 pi. XXXV. (1842). 

 Motacilla aedon, Pallas, Zoogr. Bosso-Asiat. i. p. 486(1811). 

 Curruca pliilomela (Bechst.), Koch, Syst. haier. Zool. i. p. 154 (1816). 

 Lusciuia major, Brehm, Voq. Deutschl. p. 355 (1831) ; Graif, Gen. B. 

 i. p. 173(1848); Cab. Mus. Hein. i. p. 1 (1850); Heugl. Orn. 

 N.O.-Afr. i. p. 337 (1869). 

 Lusciuia "philomela (Bechst.), Brehm, Voq. Deutschl. p. 356 (1831) ; 

 Sundev. Sr. Fogl. p. 57 (1856) ; Gray, Hand-l. B. i. p. 220. no. 3152 

 (1869). 

 Philomela magna, Blyth, Bennie's Field Nat. i. p. 307 (1833). 

 Philomela turdoides, Blyth,Jide Gcmld, B. Eur. ii. pi. 117 (1837). 

 Lusciola philomela (Bechst.), Keys. u. Bias. Wirh. Eur. pp. iviii, 189 

 (1840); Heugl. Syst. Uehers. p. 25(1856); Linderm. Vog. Griecheid. 

 p. 103 (i860) ; Nexct. List B. Eur. Blasius, p. 10 (1862) ; Frit.sch, 

 Voq. Eur.f. l81 (1870); Bogd. B. Cauc. p. 100 (1879). 

 Eiitliacus philomela (Bechst.)', Degl. Orn. Eur. i. p. 501 (1849) ; 



Dubois, Ois. Eur. pi. 62 (1862). 

 Philomela major (Brehm), Bp. Consp. i. p. 295 (18-50) ; Degl. et 

 Gerbc, Orn. Eur. i. p. 432 (1867) ; Doderl. Avif. Sicil. p. 118 

 (1809) ; Shelley, B. Egypt, p. 88 (1872). _ 

 Luscinia eximia, Brehm, Vogelf. p. 144 (1855). 

 Luscinia hvbrida, Brehm, Voqelf. p. 145 (1855). 

 Philomela 'aedon (Pall.), Salvad. Faun. Ital. Ucc. p. 97 (1871). 

 Luscinia occidental is, I 



Luscinia aedon (Prt/Z.),!- Severtz. Turkest. Jevotn. t^. 120 (1873). 

 Luscinia infuscata, j 



Lusciola aedon (Pall), Dresser, Ibis, 1875, p. .341. 

 Lusciola aedon (Pall.), ^. infuscata (Severtz.), Dresser, Ibis, 1875, 



p. 341. 

 Daulias philomela (Bechst?), Dresser, B. Eur. pt. xlix. (1876). 



This species differs from the preceding in being generally less 

 russet in colour (more olive), especially on the upper tail-coverts, 

 in having a smaller bastard primary, a more pointed wing, and in 

 being a somewhat larger bird. Bill with the upper mandible brown 

 and the under mandible pale horn-colour ; rictal bristles nearly ob- 

 Bolete. Wing with the third primary longest, second primarj- equal 

 to or slightly longer than the fourth, bastard primary Q-o to 0-4 inch ; 

 outside tail-feathers 0'2o to 0-2 inch .shorter than the longest. Legs, 

 feet, and claws brown. Length of wing 3-5 to 3-4 inches, tail 2-7 

 to 2-55, culmen 0-63 to 0-6, tarsus 1-1 to 1-05. 



In the variations of its plumage, in consequence of age, sex, or 

 season, this species resembles the preceding. 



The Eastern Nightingale breeds in Eastern Europe, rarely stray- 

 ing into the valley of the Ehine, extending northwards into South 

 Sweden and Central Russia, and eastwards into Asia Minor, 



