NIGHTINGALE, 



D JULIAS LUSCINIA {Linn.) 



Motacilla luscinia, Linn. S. N. i. p. 328 (1766). 



Sylvia luscinia^ Naum. ii. p. 373. 



Philomela luscinia, Macg. ii. p. 321 ; Hewitson, i. p. 124. 



Daulias luscinia, Yarr. ed. 4, i. p. 312 ; Dresser, ii. p. 363. 



Rossignol, French ; Nachtigall^ Waldnachtigall, German ; 

 Ruisefior, Spanish. 



This well-known and most delightful singing-bird is 

 a common spring visitor to a great part of England, but 

 seldom visits the extreme western, north-western, and 

 northern counties, is scarce and very local in Wales, 

 unknown in Ireland, and its occurrence in Scotland 

 appears to be open to doubt. In Northamptonshire, 

 the county with which I am best acquainted, the Night- 

 ingale is exceptionally abundant, generally appearing 

 about the middle of April, and leaving us early in 

 September. In Rhenish Prussia, where this and all 

 other singing-birds are strictly protected by law, and 

 where (I may add) that law is observed, the Nightingale 

 is as common and as familiar in public gardens and 

 shrubberies as the Redbreast in our own country. 



