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NIGHTINGALE. Crass It 
and upper part of the belly of a light gloffy ath- 
color: the lower belly almoft white: the exterior 
webs of the quil-feathers are of a dull reddifh 
brown; the interior of brownifh afh-color: the i- 
rides are hazel, and the eyes remarkably large and 
piercing: the legs and feet a deep afh-color. 
This bird, the moft famed of the feathered 
tribe, for the variety *, length, and fweetnefs of its 
notes, vifits Exgland the beginning of April, and 
leaves us in Auguft. It is a fpecies that does not 
{pread itfelf over the ifland. It is not found in 
North Wales; or in any of the Engh counties 
north of it, except York/bire, where they are met 
with in great plenty about Dozcaffer. They have 
been alfo heard, but rarely, near Shrew/bury. It 
is alfo remarkable, that this bird does not migrate 
fo far weft as Devonfbire and Cornwall ;. counties 
where the feafons are fo very mild, that myrtles 
flourifh in the open air during the whole year : nei- 
ther are they found in Jreland.- Sibbald places 
them in. his lift of Scotch birds ; but they certainly 
are unknown in that part of Great Britain, probably 
from the fcarcity and the recent introduction of 
hedges there. Yet they vifit Sweden, a much more 
fevere climate. With us they frequent thick 
* For this reafon, Oppian, in his haleutics, 1. I. 728. gives 
the xightingale the epithet of aiorcQam, or various voiced ; and 
Hefiod, (figuratively) of owmadega, or various throated. 
Eoya nas nuseat, 1. 201 
hedges, 
