ADDITIONAL NOTICES. 



We persuade ourselves that many of our readers will 

 be interested with the additional observations, 

 chiefly on the British Song Birds, which we have 

 here thrown together ; they are drawn from various 

 sources. 



THE NIGHTINGALE. 



** The nightingale unites the talents of all the sing- 

 ing birds, and succeeds in every style sixteen differ- 

 ent burdens may be reckoned in its song, well deter- 

 mined by the first and last notes. It can sustain the 

 song uninterrupted during twenty seconds, and the 

 sphere which its voice can fill is at least a mile in dia- 

 meter. Song is so peculiarly the attribute of this bird, 

 that even the female possesses it ; less strong and va- 

 ri.'^, it is true, than that of the male, but as to the rest 

 entirely resembling it. Even in its dreaming sleep 

 the nightingale warbles. What peculiarly constitutes 



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