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The eggs are equally inconspicuous, being dull olive^brown, 

 without a spot or streak. After they are laid, the lively song of 

 the Nightingale becomes less and less frequent, while after the 

 young are hatched, the bird is silent until the next season. The 

 Nightingale is as anxious to conceal itself as its nest, and never 

 intentionally shows its brown plumage, though it will sing 



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within six feet of a listener who will remain quiet. In the 

 spring the bird seems as if it must sing, no matter who may be 

 near, and its spirit of rivalry is so great, that the "jug-jug " of 

 one Nightingale is sure to set singing all the others within 

 hearing. 



The Wandering Albatkos {Diomcdea eooulans), the giant of 

 the petrel tribe, makes it nest after a peculiar fashion 



