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MIGRA TION OF NIGHTINGALES. 



being seen in Cornwall and some of the other western parts 

 of England. But in reply to this, it should be remembered, 

 that the eastern flight across the Channel, unless they all 

 embarked at Calais for the coasts of Essex and Kent, is as 

 wide as that between the western coasts of France, where they 

 are plentiful, and the corresponding coasts of England, which 

 they do not visit. (See p. 85). 



The Nightingale. 



The Nightingale stands unrivalled at the head of our sing- 

 ing birds, and may be called, as old Izaak Walton, the angler, 

 terms them, "chiefest of the little nimble musicians of the 



