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NIGHTINGALE. Clafs II. 



Genus XX. Slender billed fmall Birds, 



* Thofe with tails of one color. 

 ** Thofe with particolored tails. 



I. The NIGHTINGALE. 



Lc Roffignol. Behna-v. 335. Rufignuolo. Zinan 54. 



Adorn, Aidoni. Obf. 12. Motacilla lufcinia. Lin.fyjl. 328. 



Lufcinia. Ge/ner a<v. 592. Nachtergahl. Faun. Suec./p. 244. 



Aldr. an), ii. 336. HajJ'elquijl itin. Ter. Sanft. 291. 



Wil. om. 220. Nattergale. Brunnicb in append. 



Raiijyn. aw. ~%. Au - vogel, Auen - nachtigall. 

 Le Roffignol. BriJ/on ory. iii, Kram. 376. 



397. Br. Zool. 100. plate S. 1. f. 2. 



THE nightingale takes its name from nighty 

 and the Saxon word galan to fing ; exprelTive 

 Defer, of the time of its harmony. In fize it is equal to the 

 redfiart\ but longer bodied ; and more elegantly 

 made. The colors are very plain. The head and 

 back are of a pale tawny dafhed with olive : the tail 

 is of a deep tawny red : the throat, breaiT, and upper 

 part of the belly of a light glofly afh-color : the 

 lower belly almoft white: the exterior webs of the 

 quil-feathers are of a dull reddifh brown ; the interior 

 of brownilh afh-color : the irides are hazel, and the 

 eyes remarkably large and piercing : the legs and 

 feet a deep afh-color. 



This bird, the moil famed of the feathered tribe, 



for 



