APPENDIX. 695 



To make the companion, however, with accu- 

 racy, between the loudnefs of a bird's and the 

 human voice, a perfon mould be fent to the fpot 

 from whence the bird is heard ; I mould rather 

 conceive that, upon fuch trial, the nightingale 

 would be diftinguifhed further than the man.. 



It muft have ftruck every one, that, in pafiing 

 under a houfe where the windows are fhut, the 

 finging of a bird is eafily heard, when, at the fame 

 time, a converfation cannot be fo, though an 

 animated one. 



Mod people, who have not attended to the notes 

 of birds, fuppofe that thole of every fpecies fing 

 exactly the fame notes and pa Gages, which is by 

 no means true, though it is admitted that there 

 is a general refemblance. 



Thus the London bird-catchers prefer the fong 

 of the Kentijh goldfinches, but EJfex chaffinches ; 

 and when they fell the bird to thofe who can thus 

 diflinguim, inform the buyer that it hath fuch a 

 note, which is very well underftood between 

 them *. 



* Thefe are the names which they give to fome of the 

 nightingale's notes : Sweet, Sweet jug, Jug faucet, Water 

 bubble, Pipe rattle, Bell pipe, Scroty, Skeg, Skeg, Skeg, Swat 

 fwat fwaty, Whitlow whitlow whitlow, from fome diilant 

 affinity to fuch words. 



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