WARBLER. 9 



A. — Luscinia Candida, Bris. iii. 401. B. Id. 8vo. i. 421. Buf. v. 114. 

 White Nightingale, Gen. Syn. iv. 412. 



This is wholly white:* others have been noticed, in which the 

 head, neck, wings, and tail were white ; the rest of the plumage 

 brown and white mixed. 



2— GREATER NIGHTINGALE. 



Luscinia major, Bris. iii. 400. A. Id. 8vo. i. 421. Frisch, t. 21. b. Buf. v. 113. 

 Sylvia Philomela, Tern. Man. p. 106. Id. Ed. ii. 196. 

 Greater Nightingale, Gen. Syn. iv. 411. 



THIS is said to be considerably larger, and according to Frisch, 

 sings even better than the common one. The plumage rufous and 

 ash-colour mixed. How far the Nightingale extends to India we 

 are not certain, but we learn that a bird called the Hill Nightingale 

 is found in many parts there. This is seven inches long. Bill flesh- 

 colour; plumage in general brown ; beneath whitish ; legs lead- 

 coloured brown; but notwithstanding the name, we are not certain 

 that it belongs to this Genus. Kramerf mentions one smaller than 

 the other two, whose song is in proportion to its size, and that such 

 an one is not uncommon about the hedges, and also in orchards 

 in Austria. 



3 —SILKY WARBLER. 



Sylvia sericea (Natterer), Tern. Man. Ed. ii. p. 197. 



LENGTH five inches and a quarter. Plumage above dull grey 

 brown; sides of the neck and breast cinereous, inclining on the sides 



* One of these, thought a present worthy of Agrippina, wife of the Emperor Claudius, 

 for which 6000 Sesterces had been offered. — Plin. Nat. Hint. B. x. ch. 29. 

 f See Elench, p. 376. 10. 



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