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NIGHTINGALE. 



Sylvia luscinia, PEKNANT. TEMMINCK. 



Motacilla luscinia, MONTAGU. BEWICK. 



Curruca luscinia, FLEMING. 



Philomela luscinia, SELBT. GOULD. 



Sylvia. Sylca A wood. Luscinia A Nightingale. 



THE Nightingale is found in Europe, in Russia even and 

 the more temperate parts of Siberia, Sweden, Holland, Den- 

 mark, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, and the islands of 

 Greece. It is known also in Asia in Asia Minor and Syria; 

 and in Africa, in Egypt along the Nile, and in other 

 northern districts. 



In Yorkshire I have known them in great plenty in the 

 neighbourhood of Doncaster, but the bird-catchers make sad 

 havoc among them. They have also been known near York, 

 and at Skelton, about five miles north of the ancient city; 

 also in woods near Barnsley, near Beverley, and near Leeds; 

 in a wood a mile from Shipley, near Bradford; at Walton, 

 near Wakefield; Braham Park, near Wetherby; near Hud- 

 dersfield, at Cinderfield Dyke Wood in Bradley; and in the 

 wood at Cawood on the Ouse below York. I am also 

 persuaded that I heard it, 'ni fallor,' some few years ago, 

 about a mile south of Malton, seventeen miles north-east of 

 York, by the road-side, as I was walking home one moonlight 

 night. It is occasionally heard near Sheffield. It is well 

 known in Sussex, Hampshire, and Dorsetshire; some parts of 

 Gloucestershire; in Devonshire, near Teignmouth, Honiton, 

 Exeter, and the eastern parts of the county, once near 

 Kingsbridge, at Exmouth, and Barnstaple; in some parts of 

 Somersetshire; Doveridge, in Derbyshire; Cumberland, as far 

 north as Carlisle; Essex; Richmond Park, Surrey; Suffolk; 

 Norfolk, though less numerous than in some counties, at 

 Gunton, Burgh, and elsewhere; Lincolnshire, in some situations; 

 and in the Park of Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire, it is very 



