306 SYLVIAD A. 
mary, three inches and one-quarter: the first quill-feather 
very short, the second equal in length to the fifth, the third 
the longest in the wing. 
The female in plumage resembles the male. 
Young birds have buff-coloured spots on the tips of the 
feathers of the upper surface of the body; those on the 
under surface have dark margins. 
The vignette below represents the nest of the Nightin- 
gale. 
