74 GARDEN AND AVIARY BIRDS. 



(Daulias luscinid) of England and Western Europe, and 

 the Eastern Nightingale or Sprosser (Daulias philomela), 

 which last more nearly approaches the Persian bird. All, 

 however, are so much alike that they might be taken to 

 belong to the same species ; the Western is the smallest 

 and reddest in tint, and the Persian has a noticeably 

 longer tail than the other two. But after seeing much 

 of Nightingales in Kent in my earlier days, I still find it 

 difficult to notice much difference in the Asiatic repre- 

 sentative of the dear brown bird, best loved of all. 



