n6 BIRDS OF THE BRITISH ISLES. 



THE Nightingale (Erithacus luscinia, Linnaeus) is another 

 summer visitor to the British Isles, and is^also met with in 

 Central and Southern Europe. It makes its way into 

 Africa to spend the winter. The adult has the upper parts 

 russet-brown, shading into rusty-red on upper tail-coverts 

 and tail; lores, buffish-white; beneath, buffish-white, shading 

 into greyish-white on breast and flanks; axillaries and under 

 wing-coverts, brownish -white; irides, hazel; bill, brown 

 above, paler beneath; legs and feet, brown. Length, about 

 six inches. The female closely resembles the male. The 

 young in first plumage have pale centres to most of the 

 feathers on upper parts; feathers of under parts have dark 

 margins. 



