WARBLER. 5 



Le Rossignol, Buf. v. 81. pi. 6. 1. PL enl. 615. 2. #*V. Prov. i. 498. Foy. ere 



Barb. i. 273. 

 Rusignuolo, Z'xnnan. Uov. 54. t. 8. f. 42. Olin. Uc. t. p. 1. 

 L'Usignuolo, Cet. uc. Sard. 214. 

 Nachtigall, . Gunth. Nest. 65. Wirs. Vog. t. 55. Naturf. xvii. 98. Schmid, Vog. p. 



87. t. 72. 

 Nightingale, Gen. Syti. iv. 408. /d. Sup. 180. Jd. Stop. ii. 233. Br. Zool. No. 154. 



Id.fol. 100. t. S. 1. f. 2. Jd. .Ed. 1812. p. 494. Arct. Zool. ii. 416. A. Collins, 



Birds, pi. 10. f. 5. 6. Albin, iii. pi. 53. Jd. Song Birds, pi. p. 67. /Jaw. -4/e;j. 



p. 7. Kcempf. Jap. 130. 7F»7/. £ng/. 220 pi. 41. Gen*. Mag-. 22. pi. p. 265. 



Bewick, i. pi. p. 199. Shaw's Zool. x. 576. pi. 51. Lewin, iii. t. 99. Walcot, ii. 



pi. 229. Pult. Dors. p. 8. Donov. v. pi. 108. JFood's Zoogr. i. p. 486. Orre. 



Diet. (§■ Supp. 



THE Nightingale is rather superior in size to most of the British 

 Warblers ; the length nearly seven inches, extent of wing nine ; 

 weight three quarters of an ounce. Bill brown ; irides hazel ; head 

 and upper parts pale tawny, with an olive hue, beneath pale ash- 

 colour ; towards the vent nearly white ; quills brown, margined with 

 reddish brown ; tail deep tawny ; legs cinereous brown. The female 

 rather smaller, otherwise like the male. 



This bird is very common in England, but does not extend to the 

 more northern counties, and rarely far to the western. It generally 

 arrives in the middle of April, or at farthest the beginning of May.* 

 Yorkshire is the most northern part it is seen in ; and to the west 

 very rarely in Devonshire and Cornwall f The males come first, and 

 in a week or ten days after the females. They depart before the 

 end of August. This separation of the sexes, has been before 

 noticed, in respect to the Chaffinch ; but we are assured, that in all 

 birds of the Warbler Genus, which migrate, the males arrive first, 

 and if the weather afterwards prove cold, with the wind at east or 



* I once heard it in Kent on the 7th of April, and the late Mr. Lewin the 17th March, 

 both in 1791 ; from April 1, to May 1, according to the Naturalist's Calendar, p. 19. 



f In the summer of 1808, it has frequent!}' been heard in the gardens of the Earl of 

 Lonsdale, Fisher-street, Carlisle ; two of them met with on the banks of the Forth, Stirling- 

 shire, Scotland, in the year 1818. 



