AMERICAN NIGHTINGALE. 
passes, under each eye, another dusky line. 
From the nostrils, there pass Hoes of orange 
above the eyes. The legs, feet, and claws, 
are of a dirty brown or blackish colour, form- 
ed as in most other small birds.'' 
This is all the history and description v/hich 
Edwards afFords us : nor does the account of 
BufFon, which we shall also extract, present 
much additional information — 
Edwards," he remarks, was the first 
"who described this bird. He terms it," says 
^BufFon, the American Nightingale. , But it 
IS by no means a Nightingale; and it has all 
the chara-cters of the Fig-Eater, with which 
Brisson has properly arranged it. The upper 
mandible is blackish ; the lower flesh -coloured. 
The upper surface of the back, of the head, 
and of the wings, is brown; with an obscure 
tinge of greenish. The edges of the wings are 
of a lighter greeaish vellow. An orange co- 
lour predom/inates on the under side of the 
body, from the tliroat to the tail. The infe- 
rior coverts of the wings, and all thoye of the 
tail, aad also the inncf webs of the q^uills, are 
\ ^ .of 
