NIGHTINGALES IN INDIA 149 



be copied, without acknowledgment, into many 

 future text-books, for plagiarism is very rife among 

 men of science ; and thus the popular notion that 

 nightingales are common in India will be fortified by 

 scientific support ! Nightingales undoubtedly do winter 

 in India — but only in cages. We have many fine 

 songsters in Hindustan, but the nightingale is not one 

 of them. 



