WARBLERS. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Bill awl-sliaped. 
Nostrils small ; obovate. 
NIGHTINGALE. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 
Motacilla Luscinia. M. rufo-cinerea, armillis cinereis. Linn. 
Syst. Nat. Gviel. 1. p. Q50. 
Body reddish ash-colour, wing feathers 
lighter. 
Sylvia Luscinia. Scop. Ann. l.n. 22/. 
Nightingale. . . Buff. Birds , v. 5. p. 78. pi. 120. n. 1. 
Penn. Brit. Zool. 1 . n. 145. Will. 
Orn. p. 2/0. t. 41. Alb. Av. 3. t. 53. 
Lath. Syn. 2. p. 408. no. 1 . Bew. 
Birds , 1. p. 199. 
Sweet bird, that shunn’st the noise of folly. 
Most musical, most melancholy ! 
Thee, chauntress, oft the woods among 
I woo, to hear thy even song. Il’ Penseroso. 
None of the different kinds of birds prove more a- 
greeable companions to man, than those which enjoy 
the gift of harmony ; and there is not one among 
