The Melodious Tribe of Warblers 



The 



Dtahtin Nightingales not only never reach Northumber- 



land and Scotland, but also, as I have been always 

 QaC told, Devonshire and Cornwall. In those two last 



counties, we cannot attribute the failure of them to 

 the want of warmth : the defect in the west is rather a presump- 

 tive argument that these birds come over to us from the continent at 

 the narrowest passage, and do not stroll so far westward. 



Nightingales, when their young first come abroad, and are help- 

 less, make a plaintive and a jarring noise ; and also a snapping or 

 cracking, pursuing people along the hedges as they walk : these 

 last sounds seem intended for menace and defiance. G. W. 



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