AMERICAN NIGHTINGALE. 
vhich consist of climates far less diiFerent than 
hose of America, could be seldom with so 
nuch strictiiess considered as the universal pa- 
rent of any particular species, as to sustain the 
spithet of European, in any just general appli- 
cation. 
W e continue the familiar name, under which 
Edwards has figured and described thislDird; 
:hieiiy, because we have copied his figure and 
lescription,' and because we are not prepared 
:o assert that either of the names given to it by 
-Aibsenuent naturalists are in any important de- 
gree less exceptionable. Wiih all our great 
sense, of their extraordinary merits, we feel our 
Ticntal independence reject an implicit acqui- 
escence in every thing which even the most 
learned and sagacious of mankind offer to our 
rattention. 
Those, perhaps, who are most sensible of 
their extraordinary merits, are the most likely 
to discover occasional deviations from that per- 
fection which no human ability can reason- 
ably expect ever to reach. 
