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DESCRIPTION. 
"Bee RS CS ee 
Tnhabits New South Wales. For the defcription of feveral of the. 
above, I am indebted to my friend Mr. Lambert, and for many to 
real {pecimens from time to time brought into this kingdom, now in 
poffeffion of Mr. Wilfon, and others of my friends, but unfortunately 
in either cafe with little or no hiftory of their manners annexed... 
GIZE of a Nightingale: length near fix inches: bill and legs black: 
the head, juft including the eye, and all the. upper parts of the 
body and wings, are black; but the greater quills are edged with 
yellow, and the leffer have white margins: the greater wing coverts. 
have white ends, making when clofed a bar on the wing ; above this 
is a fhorter bar of white: all the under parts are yellow: tail eS 
inclining to olive green. 
In the collection of General Davies, who fuppofed it to come from. 
China, as he met with it among other preferved birds from that part 
of the world. 
