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the notes of other birds. Mr. J. J. Cash heard one 
singing on the bank of a stream, which imitated the 
call of the Common Sandpiper with such accuracy 
that, had he not known that the Sandpipers had left 
for the winter, he would have been entirely misled. 
We have twice heard the Redbreast introduce the 
pe-e-whit of the Lapwing in its song. 
The nest is built in a hole in a hedgebank, among 
the stones of a garden rockery, or in the loosely built 
walls so often met with beneath the hedges in Cheshire 
lanes; and not infrequently on a ledge in a shed or 
outbuilding. When placed, as it occasionally is, upon 
the ground, the eggs—white with reddish blotches, or 
sometimes pure white—are always protected from view 
by grass or herbage. 
NIGHTINGALE. 
DAULIAS LUSCINIA (Linnzus). 
On the eastern side of the Pennine Range, the 
Nightingale is not uncommon in some parts of York- 
shire, and has even occurred on one occasion in the 
north of Northumberland. In the west of England, 
however, the northern limits of its range are probably 
marked by the wooded lowlands of Cheshire, where it 
occurs as an occasional summer visitor. 
Almost every year the local newspapers report the 
occurrence of Nightingales in various parts of the 
county; but the majority of these instances are un- 
supported by trustworthy evidence, and investigation 
generally proves the songster to be a Sedge Warbler, 
Blackcap, or other bird. 
In May 1862, a Nightingale sang for about a fort- 
