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On our islands it frequents small groves in the flat, fertile portions where water is abundant 

 but on Bornholm it frequents the grassy parts of the small valleys through which a stream 

 flows, especially places which are near the peasants' houses." 



It does not appear to have been met with in Holland or Belgium; and though Messrs. 

 Degland and Gerbe state that they have seen two examples which were obtained near Paris, yet 

 it appears to me that there may possibly be a mistake, as it has not otherwise been met with 

 so far west ; Messrs. Jaubert and Barthelemy-Lapommeraye say that it does not occur in the 

 south of France, and that Crespon, who included it amongst the birds of Provence, was clearlv 

 unacquainted with the real bird. It does not occur in Spain ; and it must probably be an error 

 that Professor Barboza du Bocage includes it in his list of the birds of Portugal. Passing east- 

 ward, again, I find that Messrs. Meisner and Schinz say that it occurs in Switzerland, but is 

 much less numerous than the common Nightingale. It is generally met in the warmer portions 

 of that country — as in Tessin, Leman, Wallis, &c. 



It is said to have been obtained in Italy ; but Salvadori doubts the authenticity of the 

 specimens stated to have been procured there, and adds that Cara's supposed example from 

 Sardinia is nothing but Daulias luscinia ; and Professor Doderlein, in confirming this, adds that 

 he does not believe that it has ever been obtained in Sicily. 



It appears to be somewhat rare in Southern Germany, except perhaps in the Austrian 

 dominions. Dr. Anton Fritsch says (J. f. O. 1871, p. 198) that it is found but rarely in the 

 vicinity of Prague, and he is uncertain as to whether it breeds in Bohemia. I did not observe 

 or hear of it when in Styria ; but it passes through Greece during the two seasons of migration, 

 and is doubtless met with in Turkey. Professor von Nordmann speaks of it as being rarer in 

 Southern Russia than the common Nightingale ; but Mr. H. Goebel states (J. f. 0. 1870, p. 444) 

 that for every one individual of Daulias luscinia he has met with at least twenty of the present 

 species in the Uman district, where it is extremely numerous in all suitable localities. It was 

 not observed by Canon Tristram in Palestine; but it occurs in North-east Africa, though it is 

 not met with on the north-western side of that continent. Dr. Brehm found both species of 

 Nightingale in small companies in Berber, between the 7th and 10th September ; and Von 

 Heuglin observed it in Lower Egypt between the 10th and '25th March, and in September near 

 Keren, in the Bogos country. Captain Shelley says that it is scarce in Egypt. 



The present species is recorded with doubt by Menetries from the Caucasus, but has been 

 obtained in Turkestan, where two other closely allied forms are also found, viz. Daulias hqfizi, 

 Severtzoff (Turk. Jevotnie, p. 120), which was also met with in Persia by Mr. Blanford, and is 

 by him stated to have a longer and more rounded tail, and has the plumage less rufous above 

 and paler below. Mr. Blanford gives the measurements of a male as — wing 3 - 5, tail 3-05. A 

 larger form of Daulias hafizi from Turkestan is also described by Dr. Cabanis (J. f. 0. 1873, p. 79) 

 under the name of Luscinia golzii. Mr. Blanford, who examined the type at Berlin, gives the 

 measurements as — wing 3 - 8, tail 3 - 32, tarsus 1T5, culmen - 72. 



I have had but very meagre opportunities of studying the habits of this bird, and cannot do 

 better than extract the chief portion of my notes respecting the same from Naumann, who has 

 published extensive notes, the result of careful personal observation. This gentleman says that 

 it closely assimilates to Daulias luscinia in general habits, being like that species unwary and 



