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DAULIAS LUSCINIA. 



(COMMON NIGHTINGALE.) 



Ficedula luscinia, Briss. Orn. ii. p. 397 (1760). 



Motacilla luscinia, Linn. Syst. Nat. i. p. 328 (1766, partim). 



Sylvia luscinia, Scop. Ann. I. Hist. Nat. p. 154. no. 227 (1769). 



Le Mossignol, Montb. Hist. Nat. Ois. v. p. 81 (1778). 



Curruca luscinia (L.), Koch, Baier. Zool. i. p. 154 (1816). 



Daulias, Boie [Sylvia luscinia, L.), Isis, 1831, p. 542. 



Luscinia megarhynchos, C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschl. p. 356 (1831). 



Luscinia media, C. L. Brehm, op. cit. p. 357 (1831). 



Luscinia oJcenii, C. L. Brehm, op. cit. p. 357 (1831). 



Luscinia peregrina, C. L. Brehm, op. cit. p. 358 (1831). 



Philomela luscinia (L.), Selby, Brit. Orn. i. p. 206 (1833). 



Luscinia philomela, Bp. Comp. List, p. 15 (1838, nee Bechst.). 



Lusciola luscinia (L.), Keys. & Bias. Wirbelth. Eur. p. 58 (1840). 



Erythacus luscinia (L.), Degl. Orn. Eur. i. p. 499 (1849). 



Mossignol ordinaire, French ; Ruxinol, Portuguese ; Ruiseiior, Spanish ; Rusignuolo, Italian ; 

 Rosignol, Maltese ; Moid el hasin, JJmm el hasin, Moorish ; NacMigall, Waldnachtigall, 

 German ; de Nachtegaal, Dutch ; Lapadnoy solovey, Kussian. 



Figurce notabiles. 

 D'Aubenton, PL Enl. 615. fig. 2 ; "Werner, Atlas, Insectivores, pi. 31 ; Kjserb. Orn. Dan. 

 taf. 22b; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. taf. 22. figs. 4 & 11 ; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 74. 

 fig. 2 ; Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 116 ; id. B. of G. Brit. ii. pi. 56. 



Ad. capite et corpore supra rufescenti-fuscis : supracaudalibus et cauda saturate ferrugineis : remigibus saturate 

 fuscis, extus rufescente fusco marginatis : corpore subtiis griseo-albido : mento, gula et abdomine cen- 

 traliter fere albis : pectore pallide griseo-fusco lavato : hypochondriis et subcaudalibus pallide rufescente 

 fusco lavatis : rostro fusco, mandibula, ad basin pallidiore : iride saturate fusca : pedibus brunneis. 



2 hand a mare distinguenda. 



Juv. corpore supra saturatiore et ochraceo guttato : subtus pallide fusco-ochraceo lavato, plumis vix griseo-fusco 

 marginatis. 



Adult Male (Piedmont, 20th April) . Upper parts generally uniform rich brown, tinged with rufous ; upper 

 tail-coverts and tail rich dark ru3ty red ; quills dark brown, externally margined with reddish brown ; 

 underparts dull greyish white, lighter on the chin, throat, and centre of the abdomen, and tinged with 

 pale greyish brown on the breast ; flanks and under tail-coverts washed with pale warm reddish brown ; 



