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tail is light chestnut, or russet-brown, the second primary 
longer than the sixth, and the first, or bastard-primary, is so 
small as to be less than one-third of the length of the second. 
The Nightingale which comes to England in the summer is 
replaced on the Continent from the valley of the Rhine and 
Southern Sweden eastward by Daulias philomela, the “Thrush- 
Nightingale,” which extends to Turkestan and South-west 
Siberia, and winters as far south as Nyasa-Land in Africa. In 
certain parts of Turkestan and Persia, a third species, Daulias 
golzi , occurs and winters in Northern India. 
THE COMMON NIGHTINGALE. DAULIAS LUSCINIA. 
{Plate XXIII.) 
Motacilla luscinia, Linn., Syst. Nat., i., p. 328 (1766). 
Philomela luscinia, Macg., Br. B., ii., p. 221 (1839). 
Daulias luscinia, Newt. ed. Yarn, i., p. 31 2 (1872); Dresser, B. 
Eur., ii., p. 363, pi. 56 (1876); B. O. U. List Br. B., 
p. 11 (1883); Lilford, Col. Fig. Br. B., pt. 9 (1888); 
Saunders, Man., p. 39 (1889). 
Erithacus luscinia, Seeb., Cat. B. Brit. Mus., v.,p. 294 (1881) ; 
id. Br. B. i., p. 276 (1883). 
Adult Male. — General colour above russet-brown, more rufous 
on the upper tail-coverts ; upper wing-coverts like the back ; 
bastard-wing, primary-coverts and quills dusky-brown, ex- 
ternally rufous-brown ; tail-feathers light chestnut, brown on 
the edges and on the centre feathers ; head like the back ; 
lores grey ; eyelid whitish ; ear-coverts ruddy-brown like the 
back ; cheeks ashy, shading into the sides of neck ; throat and 
under surface of the body dull whitish, the lower throat, chest, 
and sides of body ashy-grey with a brownish tinge ; the under 
tail-coverts fulvescent ; thighs dark brown ; under wing-coverts 
buff, with ashy bases ; the lower primary-coverts ashy-brown, 
with buffy-white tips ; quills dusky below, ashy-fulvous along 
he inner web ; bill brown, the lower mandible horn-colour ; 
ieet and claws, brown; iris hazel. Total length, 6 '5 inches; 
culmen, 0-55; wing, 3-4; tail, 275; tarsus, 1-05. 
Adult Female. — Similar to the male in colour. Total length, 
<5 inches; wing, 3 '2. 
