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may be made by management to bear confinement, and fing 



equally with thofe brought up from the neft*. — Thus much for 



the general manners; the whole of which would fill a volume. 



Thofe who defire more, may confult the Br. Zool. and Appendix; 



alfo the Ht/t. des oif. where the fubject is treated in the mod am- 

 ple manner. 



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Le grand Roffignol, Brif. orn. iii. p. 400. — Buf. oif. v. p. 113. 

 Groffe-nachtigalle, Schivench. Sil. p. 296. 

 Slowick wiekfzy, Rzacz. 4ufl. Pol. 391. 

 Sprofs-vogel, Frifcb. pi. 21. 



r T* H I S is mentioned by authors as being considerably bigger 

 than the other, and, according to Frifcb, fings even better. 

 The plumage is faid to be rufous and afh-colour mixed. 



This author alfo fpeaks of a third, which is fmaller than the 

 other two, whofe fong is only in proportion to its fize -f . 



Thefe are faid to be met with chiefly in Silejia ; not but there 

 are Nightingales of a much larger fize to be met with about 

 AnjoUy in France. 



Var. A. 



GREATER N. 



Description. 



Placb. 



* If an old bird be caught at the firlt coining, it begins to fing after fix or 

 eight days confinement, and after the ufual time, the fong goes off; and again 

 the end of December ; and fo on every year : but if brought up from the neft, it 

 fings the whole year round, except during the time of moulting ; and often 

 better than the wild Nightingale. 



t See Kram. el. p. 376. N° 10. i 



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