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beyond the third degree of western longitude, a line which 

 cuts off the western part of Devonshire and Cornwall, 

 together with part of South "Wales, and all Ireland." In 

 the former editions of this work, I had considered that 

 the Nightingale was not to be found in Glamorganshire, 

 but in the spring of the present year (1855), Robert 

 Boreter, Esq., of Llandough Castle, near Cowbridge, con- 

 vinced me to the contrary, and most kindly took the 

 trouble to obtain and send me a specimen of a male bird 

 shot in May, near the Perthkerry Woods, about seven 

 miles S.S.E. of Cowbridge; in which district when the 

 spring is warm, the Nightingale is not uncommon. Mon- 

 tagu says it is plentiful in Somersetshire ; but it is only 

 occasionally heard in the northern part of that county. It 

 is not included by Mr. Rylands in his Catalogue of the 

 Birds of Lancashire ; yet it has been heard on the north- 

 west side of England as high up as Carlisle, but no further. 

 On the eastern side, this bird is well known to frequent 

 Essex, Suffolk, Norfolk, some of the more wooded parts 

 of Lincolnshire, and several parts of Yorkshire ; but not 

 higher than five miles north of the city of York, as I learn 

 from my friend and correspondent, Mr. Thomas Allis. The 

 Nightingale, has not, I believe, been heard in Scotland, or 

 in the Scottish Islands ; which, considering that it does 

 visit Denmark, is also extraordinary. It is said to have 

 been heard in Calder Wood in Mid Lothian, in the early 

 part of the summer of 1826, but I have heard of no recent 

 instance. An attempt to establish the Nightingale in Scot- 

 land is thus recorded in a note to an edition of White's 

 Selborne, published in Edinburgh : " It has been generally 

 believed that the migratory songsters, both old and 

 young, return to their native haunts in the breeding season. 

 From this circumstance it is believed, that if any of 

 these could be bred beyond the ordinary limits of their 



