the SINGING of BIRDS- 1 8 3 
educated with a view only to his future appear- 
ance on the opera ttage ; he therefore manages 
his voice to greater advantage than thofe who 
have not fo early and conftant inftrud'don. 
Con tidering the lize of many tinging birds, 
it is rather amazing at what a diftance their 
notes may be heard. 
I think I may venture to fay, that a Nightin- 
gale may be very clearly diliingui (bed at more 
than half a mile, if the evening is calm. I have 
alfo obferved the breath of a Robin (which ex- 
erted itfelf) fo condenfed in a trolly morning, 
as to be very vilible. 
To make the comparifon, however, with ac- 
curacy, between the loudnefs of a bird’s and the 
human voice, a perfon fhouid be lent to the 
{pot from whence the bird is heard •, 1 fhouid 
rather conceive that, upon fuch trial, the 
Nightingale would be diftinguifhed further than 
the man. 
It mu ft have ftruck every one, that, in paf- 
ftng under a houfe where the windows are ihut, 
the tinging of a bird is eatily heard, when at 
the fame time a conversation cannot be fo, tho’ 
an animated one. 
Moll people, who have not attended to the 
notes of birds, fuppofe that thofe of every fpe* 
cies ting exactly the fame notes and patlages, 
which is by no means true, though it is admit- 
ted that there is a general rdemblance. 
