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TIIIIUSII NIGHTINGALE. 
Dalmatia. According to Temminck it is also found in 
Spain, but this is doubted by Count Mliblc. It ranges 
south as far as the Volga, the Caucasus, Egypt, and 
Persia. It is rare in France, tbougli M. Gerbe records 
the appearance of two specimens in the neighbourhood 
of Paris, in September, 1847. It does not occur in 
Holland. 
Count Muble informs us that it appears later than 
the Nightingale, but that it chooses the same localities, 
preferring, however, the neighbourhood of water and 
marshes. It likes to select its dwelling in the deep- 
lying thickets among the cultivated islands on the large 
rivers. In Germany it especially frequents the shores 
of the Don, Oder, Elbe, and their tributaries, but is 
rarely found on the Phine. 
In its habits the Thrush Nightingale appears more 
impetuous and not so graceful as its congener; its song 
is deeper and louder, and by some not thought so 
pleasing. It builds generally on stumps of trees. It 
lays five or six eggs, which, as will be seen by the 
figure of a specimen sent me by M. Verreaux, are very 
similar to those of our well-known species. Count 
Muhle says the egg is generally darkly spotted, Avhich 
is not however mentioned by Temminck, and denied 
by Degland. All the specimens sent me by M. Ver- 
reaux are deep olive, like that figured; one lighter in 
colour, but none of them with any spots. 
The plumage is so like that of the Common Night- 
ingale, that it is not necessary to give any lengthened 
detail. The male and female have the upper parts of 
a dull grey brown ; clear grey, tinted with darker on 
the chest ; tail less brightly marked with russet than in 
the Common Nightingale; throat white, surrounded by 
dark grey; feet brown. 
