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ORD. III. GEN. XI. WARBLER. 



SPE. II. NIGHTINGALE. 



PI. 99. 



Motacilla lufcinia. Lin. Syft. I. p. 328. 

 Le Roffignol. Br if. Orn. III. p. 397. 



The bill of this bird is dufky : the eyes hazel : the head and back reddifh 

 brown : the tail of a deeper tawny red : the under parts of the body of a pale 

 yellowifh afh colour, growing whitifh. towards the vent : the quill feathers, and 

 greater wing-coverts dark reddifh brown, with light edges. The difference 

 between the male and female is fcarcely difcernible. 



Few are ignorant of the reputation the nightingale enjoys for fong, in which 

 it is allowed to be the firft of its race. It commonly begins to fing in the 

 evening, and continues through the night; though it muft be obferved it fings 

 likewife in the day. It is a folitary bird, and keeps out of fight for the molt 

 part, being concealed in a hedge or bufh, whence it utters its delightful note. 

 It arrives in England the end of March or beginning of April, and retires about 

 the end of Auguft, but does not vifit the more northern counties. It makes 

 its neft in a low bufh, and lays four or five eggs, for which fee PI. XXIII. 

 Fig. 2. 







