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THE NIGHTINGALE. 



(Philomela luscinia.) 



T N common with one or two allied species, 

 * the Nightingale differs so materially in 

 structure and habits from the garden or fruit- 

 eating warblers (Sylvia), with which it has been 

 generally associated, that most naturalists now- 

 adays are agreed in regarding it as the type 

 of a separate genus (Philomela}. For want of 

 a better English name, and as indicating their 

 haunt, the members of this genus may be 

 called " thicket warblers." As regards structure, 



