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The most celebrated bird of this sub-genus is, 

 The Nightingale, {Mot. Luscinia, Lin.) Enl. 615. 2. 



Reddish-brown above ; whitish-gray underneath, the 

 tail a little more red. Every body knows this songster 

 of the night, and the melodious and varied sounds with 

 which it charms the forests. It nestles in trees, and 

 only sings until the young are hatched. The care of 

 their subsistence then occupies the male as well as 

 the female. 



The eastern part of Europe produces a race a little 

 larger, the breast slightly varied with grayish tints. 

 {Mot. Philomela, Bechst.) 



The Silky TVarbler, Sylvia Sericea^ of Natterer and 

 Temminck ; it is rather smaller than the Nightingale, 

 more silky, and the tail is slightly rounded. Spain and 

 Gibraltar. 



These three species, or races, differ in the compa- 

 rative length of the primary quills. 



The other species bear, in common, the name of 

 Warblers. They almost all have an agreeable song, 

 gaiety of habits, flit continually in pursuit of insects, 

 nestle in the bushes, and, for the most part, near the 

 edge of waters, in reeds, &c. 



I place at their head a species almost large enough 

 to have been still put in the genus of the Thrush. 



Reed Thrush, {River JVightingale, &c. T. Arundinaceus, 

 Lin.) Enl. 513. 



Reddish-brown above, yellow under ; throat white ; 

 a pale mark over the eye ; somewhat smaller than the 



