AMERICAN NIGHTINGALES 
of the same colour. From the angle of the ii 
bill, a black streak stretches across the eye j i 
and another extends below it. Between these i 
two, and under them, the orange forms two- i 
bars. The legs and toes are blackish. The t 
bird is nearly as large as the Redbreast, and c 
not quite so thick. Edwards remarks, that it 
bears great resemblance to what Sloane, in his 
Natural History of Jamaica, calls the Icterus i| 
Minor, Nidum Suspendens." 'i\ 
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It is easy to perceive, that BulFon,Jike our- |to 
selves, owes all that he has given respecting k 
this bird, to Edwards ; except., only, that he |i 
adopts the appellation under which it is de- jse 
scribed by Brisson. im 
It may be proper to rem.ark that, though wc 
have no invincible objection to considering this 
bird as the Ni?htinQ^a!e of America, in con- 
tradistinction to the European. Nighiingale, we 
Vv'ould not by any means contend for the pro-|fc 
priety of giving so general a name as that||( 
which embrciccs a whole continent, to any 
single object found only in particular parts oi i 
it. Even Europe, the various countries of 
which 
