74 GARDEN AND AVIARY BIRDS. 
(Daulias luscoma) of England and Western Europe, and 
the Eastern Nightingale or Sprosser (Daulias philomela), 
which last more nearly approaches the Persian bird. All, 
however, are so much alike that they might be taken 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 difference in the Asiatic 
representative of the dear brown bird, best loved of all. 
