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AVES — FLYCATCHER. ..NIGHTINGALE. 



can instantly distinguish in the woods. It is sure to be seen in the interior 

 of forests, the borders of swamps, and meadows, and in deep glens covered 

 with wood, and wherever flying insects abound. It is very generally found 

 in the United States. 



The name redstart has been given to it from its supposed resemblance to 

 the redstart of Europe. It builds in low bushes ; the nest is built of flax 

 moistened with saliva, and lined with soft down. The male is extremely 

 anxious for its preservation, and on any one's approaching the place, will flit 

 about within a few feet, seeming greatly distressed. 



This bird is five inches long ; the general color above is black, glossed 

 with blue ; the sides of the breast, part of the wings and tail, of a fine orange, 

 and the under parts white. 



THE NIGHTINGALEi 



Visits England in the beginning of April, and leaves it in September. It is 

 found but in some of the southern parts of that country, being totally un- 

 known in Scotland, Ireland, or North Wales. They frequent thick hedges 

 and low coppices, and generally keep in the middle of the bush, so that they 

 are rarely seen. It is not by the beauty of his plumage that this universally 

 admired bird has become a general favorite, and the theme of almost every 

 poet ; for he is one of those warblers which are the most humbly attired. 

 He is about six inches long, and the upper part of his body is of a rusty 



1 Sylvia luscinia, Lath. The genus Sylvia has the bill straight, slender, awl-shaped, 

 Ihe base deeper than broad ; point of the upper mandible frequently notched, the under 

 one straight ; nostrils basal, lateral, ovoid, partly covered by a membrane ; tarsus longer 

 than the middle toe ; the exterior toe joined at its base to the middle one ; first quill 

 feather very short, or none ; second scarcely exceeding the third ; great wing-coverts much 

 shorter than the quill feathers. 



