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INSECTIVOR.E. 
Family SYLVIAD^. 
Genus Sylvia, f Latham.) 
THRUSH NIGHTINGALE. 
Sylvia philomela. 
Luscinia major, 
H 66 
Ifoiacilla luscinia major, var., 
Sylvia philomela, 
66 66 
66 66 
Lusciola philomela, 
66 66 
Fee-fin or Fossignol pliilomele, 
or Grand Fossignol, 
Sprosser Nachtigall, 
Fossignolo Forestiero, 
Beisson; Ornith., 17(50. 
Naumann. Gould. 
Gmelin; Syst., 1788. 
Bechstein; 1810. 
Temminck; Manual, 1820. 
ScHiNZ; Europ. Fauna, 1840. 
Ketseeling and Blasius. 
SCHLEGEL. 
Of the Eeench. 
Of the Geemans. 
Of Savi. 
Specific Characters. — Plumage above of a sombre brown. The 
first primary nearly obsolete, the second nearly as long as the 
third, and longer than the fourth. Length of male and female 
seven inches; from carpus to tip three inches and a half; tail 
from vent three inches; beak from gape seven tenths of an inch. 
The Thrush Nightingale is an inhabitant of the 
eastern parts of Europe. It is found m the south of 
Sweden — in Pomerania and Finland, in the south of 
Germany and Switzerland, Poland, Hungary, and 
