AMERICAN NIGHTINGALE. 
Phis bird was originally figured by Ed- 
/ards; and we have adopted the name under 
'hieh he described it, tliough the naturalists 
1 general do not seem to consider it as ab- 
^liitely a Nightingale. 
They class it, however, among the Warb- 
•s; and, therefore, we perceive no very ma- 
;rial objection to considering it, with Ed- 
ards, as the American Nightingale. 
It is probable enough, tliat he might receive 
under this appellation, though he does not 
:tually tell us so. 
He merely says, that it was brought from 
imaica, by Mr. Harper, a Surgeon, late of 
lastow, in Essex — and that it differs from 
ly description w^hich Edwards himself can 
ad; but comes nearest the Spanish Nightin- 
ile, in Sir Elans Sloane's History of Jamaica, 
e author of which gives it the Latin name of 
lerus Minor, Nidum Suspendens. 
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