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The remaining genera of the Order Passert* t 

 consist of the more Muiilcr-billcd small liinls, or 

 sueli as, from the structure of their l>< -aks, arc 

 more calculati .I fef feeding on the smaller and 

 mtou insects than on grain. Linnaeu* ranges the 

 major part of these birds imdrra vast genus called 

 Alotacilla or Warbler, the characters of which are 

 a weak, slender bill, slightly notched at the tip: 

 the tongue either divided or jagged at the tip, and 

 the legs slender. These birds live principally on 

 the smaller kind of insects and worms. 



Among the principal species is the Nightingale, 

 which is the J/. Luxcinia of Linnaeus, a native of 

 most parts of Europe and Asia, and of a migra- 

 tory nature. In our own country it arrives, as is 

 well known, about the beginning of April, and 

 leaves us in the month of August. 



" To every person, (says the Count de Buflbn,) 

 whose ear is not totally insensible to melody, t lie- 

 name of the Nightingale must recal the charms 

 of those soft evenings in spring, when the air is 

 still and serene, and all nature seems to listen to 

 the songster of the grove. Other birds, the larks, 

 the canaries, the chaffinches, the petty-chaps, the 

 linnets, the goldfinches, the blackbirds, the Ame- 



