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Curious 



REMARKS 



On the Nature of 



SON G-B 1 R D S, ^c. 



Of /Z^f Nightingale, 



I Begin with the Nightingale, it being a 

 curious fine Bird, and in my Opinion, 

 the beil of Birds; for he fings his Songs with 

 fo much Pleafantnefs, that no Bird can out- 

 do him ; he fings feven or eight Months in 

 the Year, and commonly begins about the 

 latter End of Oolober, or the Beginning of 

 NovemhcT, and holds it out all the Winter, 

 and to the latter End of June. I have 

 heard him fing at Twelve o-clock at Night, 

 divers Notes. He is a flout Bird, and has 

 a large Voice. 1 have heard one fmg for 

 half an Hour againil a Wood-Lark, and I 

 thought he would have dropt down off his 

 Pearch, by reafon of his Stoutnefs and Free- 

 nefs, rather than be out-done. - 



Thefa Birds are never feen in the Winter 

 in any known Part of the World, fo far as 

 I can learn from all Travellers I Iwve con- 



vers'd 



