﻿4o3 WARBLER. 



NIGHTIN Motacilla lufcinia, Lin. Syfl. i. p. 324. N° 1. — Kram. el. p. 375. N° 9.— 



GALE. Brun. orn. p. 79. — Muller, p. 32. N" 265. — Frijcb. t. 21. — Kram, el. 



376. 10. — Olin. uc. pi. in p. 1. 

 Sylvia lufcinia, &■«/. «»». i. N° 227. 

 Le Rofiignol, Brif. orn. iii. p. 397. N° 13. — Buf. oif. v. p. 81. pi. 6. f. I. — 



>/. *»/. 615. N° 2. 

 Nightingale, .#<z;V Syn. p. 78. — ZT/7/. orn. p. 220. pi. 41. — Albin. iii. pi. 53. 

 Br. Zool. i. N° 145. Arft. Zool. 



Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



Description np h I S, though a plain bird, merits the firft place in the 

 Warbler genus, on account of its delightful fong. It is 

 larger in fize than the Hedge Sparrow, and in length fix inches 

 and a quarter. The bill is brown : irides hazel : the head and 

 back pale tawny, dafhed with olive : the tail of a deep tawny 

 red: under parts pale afh-colour, growing white towards the 

 vent: quills cinereous brown, with the outer margins reddifh 

 brown : legs cinereous brown. 

 The male and female very fimilar. 

 Place and This bird is fufficiently common in England, but not feen in 



the more northern counties, and feldom in the wcftern, Torkjhire 

 being the farther! to which it migrates, and fcarce ever {een. 

 either in DevonJIrire or Cornwall. It comes into this ifland the 

 beginning of April, and departs fome time in Auguft. It is met 

 with in Sibiria, Sweden, Germany, France, Italy, and Greece, but 

 in all thofe places is migratory, as in England; indeed we are not 

 clear in refpecl: to its natural winter refidence, but moft likely it 

 is not in Europe ; nor are we pofitive of its being in Africa * : 



* In the Voy. aux Canaries, p. 104, a Nightingale is mentioned, which is 

 faid not to fing fo well as ours, it is therefore not certain of its being the fame. 



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