EERATUM. 



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The cry of the young Nightingale is wrongly described 

 here. It is not like that of the young Blackbird, but is 

 a croak similar to the croak of the old Nightingales. I 

 have already published an account of how this error was 

 occasioned {Zoologist, No. 673, July, 1897, page 331). 



Charles A. Witchell. 



was aware of the imitativeness of many musical 

 species when in captivity, and I was acquainted 

 with the notes of most of the wild birds found in 

 Gloucestershire. I listened to this nightingale, at 

 the distance of a few yards, on eighteen out of the 

 twenty-one evenings on which he sang. His nest 



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