410 - on the winter food of the nightingale. Dec: 26 
conscious of the season, would suppose himself bas- 
king in the sun, when in fact he is only bafking in 
his light ; so difficult is it to separate the ideas of 
bright sunfhine and heat,—especially when a man 
feels both, and sees around him all the common ef- 
fects of that benign planet,—such as verdant trees, 
fowers blowing, birds pairing, We. 
But nothing can give a better idea of this artifi- 
cial summer and garden, than to say, that both Eu- 
ropean, American, and Asiatic birds, are deceived. 
into propagation by it; for the loxia cardinalis, or , 
Virginian nightingale*, the tringilla. Angolensis, 
or Angola sparrow, with the tringilla amadava: 
from the Brazils, have all had young there within 
these few years; and as to canaries, and European. 
birds, they breed most readily. I fhall here subjoin, 
as a curiosity, the list of the supply her imperial 
majesty has purchased from the famous London bird 
dealer, Brooks, this summer, with the prices paid for 
them. The list sent is the original wrote by Brooks: 
himself, the same her majesty received and paid.’ 
On the winter food of the nightingale in Rufsia. 
T have still to mention the winter food of the nightin-= 
gale in Rufsia, when the swarm of summer insects: 
are no more. That consists of dried ants eggs, and: 
cockroaches, (blatta,) which the hot cottages of the 
peasants ever furnith, especially as every one bakes 
his own bread at home. It will likewise be equal- 
* The keeper of the emprefs’s winter garden, told your correspondent, 
that the /exia cardinalis destroyed her own young, although I think that _ 
the rats are more likely to have done it, which often get into that en- 
chanted place. 
