ERITHACtrs. LUSCINIA. 95 



General Distribution, Robins, apparently of this sub- 

 species, have been recorded from Italy in autumn and winter, 

 viz., one from Castiglione del Lago, Central Italy, in 

 Jan. 1910, and from Rome in Oct. 1899. 



Genus LUSCINIA Forster, Synop. Cat. Brit. Birds, 1817, 

 p. 14. 



Type : L. megarliynclia Brehm. 



Luscinia = a nightingale, in ckssical Latin. The suggested derivations 

 from lugere or lux are most unsatisfactory. 



Luscinia megarhyncha. COMMON NIGHTINGALE. 



Luscinia megarhyncha Brehm, Handb. Naturg. V6g 

 Deutscbl. 1831, p. 356 : Germany. 



Erithacus luscinia (Linn.) Seebohm, Cat. Birds B. M. v. 1881, 



p. 294. 

 Daulias luscinia B. O. U. List, 1st ed. 1883, p. 11 j Sounders, 



Manual, 2nd ed. 1899, p. 39. 



Megarhyncha = with a big beak ; from jueyas and puy^os. 



Distribution in the British Islands. A Summer Visitor to 

 southern, midland, and eastern England and to eastern 

 Wales. It nests as far north as Yorkshire, and as far west 

 as Devonshire, Somersetshire, and the border counties 

 of Wales. Elsewhere it is irregular, but has occurred in 

 Northumberland, Lancashire, and once in Scotland (Isle 

 of May, Fife). 



General Distribution. The Nightingale breeds in Europe 

 from the North sea to the Mediterranean and Black sea ; 

 also in Cyprus, Asia Minor, and north-west Africa. It 

 winters in Africa. An allied form, L. m. golzii, occurs in 

 Persia, Turkestan, and the Kirghiz Steppes. 



