EASTERN NiaHTINaALE. 



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INSECTIVOR^. 



Family SYLVIID^. 



Genus Daulias. f Bote. J 



Generic Characters. — Bill moderate, straight ; the tip slightly deflected and 

 emarginated. Nostrils basal, supernal, and round. Wings moderate ; first 

 quill very short, second longer than fifth, the third longest in the wing. 

 Tail rounded. Legs long and slender; the tarsi covered in front by a single 

 scale; the toes long; claws rather short. 



EASTERN NIGHTINGALE. 



Daulias philomela. 



Daulias philomela, 

 (( (I 



Luscinia major, 



Motacilla luscinia major, var., 

 Sylvia philomela. 



Lusciola philomela, 



Philomela aedon. 



Bee-fin or Rossignol philomele, 



or Grand Rossignol, 

 Sprosser Nachtigall, 

 Rossignolo Forestiero, 

 Thrush Nightingale, 



Newton; in Yarrell, 4th. Ed. 



Sclater; Cat. Zoo. Soc. 



Brisson; Ornith., 1760. Naumann. 



Gould. 



Gmelin; Syst. 1788. 



Bechstein, 1 8 10. Bree; ist. Ed. 



Temminck; Manual, 1820. 



ScHiNZ; Europ. Fauna, 1840. 



Keyserling and Blasius. Schlegel, 



Salvadori; Fauna d' Italia. 



Of the French. 

 Of the Germans. 

 Of Savi. 

 Of Authors. 



Specific Characters. — Plumage above of a sombre brown. The first primary 

 nearly obsolete, the second nearly as long as the third, and longer than the 

 fourth. Length of male and female seven inches; from carpus to tip three 

 inches and a half; tail from vent three inches; beak from gape seven tenths 

 of an inch. 



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