Behaviour of Birds 
2.11.16). On May Bf I9gr5, at 3 a.m. in 
the garden of a chateau a NIGHTINGALE 
began to sing; half an hour afterwards 
German shells were rained upon the garden 
incessantly throughout the day. The bird 
sang without a pause where the shells fell 
thickest until mid-day, and survived, for next 
morning he started again as cheerily as ever 
(Times, 2.11.16). A wiring party, forced to 
seek refuge in their front-line trench by a 
sharp burst of artillery fire lasting five min- 
utes, were surprised, ten minutes after, to 
hear the sweet song of a NIGHTINGALE in an 
adjoining coppice (Scotsman, 16.vi.17). Dur- 
ing one of our most furious artillery duels a 
NIGHTINGALE sang gaily from the shelter of a 
dwarfed hawthorn, his song sounding strange 
and eerie between the violent cannonading 
from our guns. Yet, inspite of the deafening 
uproar, he never paused in his singing until 
the dawn came up, lurid and sullen, over the 
eastern horizon, and the rain descended in 
torrents. Later on, his mate was found to 
have a nest in the hawthorn, and was sitting 
upon her eggs, apparently unmoved by the 
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