74 GARDEN AND AVIARY BIRDS. 



{Ddnl'uis luscinia) of England and Wcstorn Europe, and 

 the Eastern Nii^ditingale or Sprosser {Daulias philotnela), 

 wliic-li last more nearly appi'oaches tlip IVi'sian bird. All, 

 however, are so much alike that they might be takeji to 

 belong to the same species ; the Western is the smallest 

 and reddest in tint, and the Persian has a noticeably 

 longer tail than the other two. But after seeing much 

 of Nightingales in Kent in my earlier days, I still find it 

 difficult to notice much dilTerence in the Asiatic repre- 

 sentative of the dear brown bird, best loved of all. 



