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SYLVIADiE. 
I NS ESSO RES. 
DENTIROSTRES. 
SYLVIADJE. 
NIGHTINGALE. 
Philomela luscinia. 
PLATE XXXIII. FIG. I. AND II. 
Those who live too far north, or in the southern coun¬ 
ties where its sweet notes are never heard, can have hut 
little conception of the pleasure of which they are de¬ 
prived, if they have never been so fortunate as to listen 
to the song of the Nightingale. I have many a time 
wished that I had yet to hear it for the first time, for 
although that delicious song, when heard in each suc¬ 
ceeding year, produces a feeling of pleasure not to be 
expressed, it can never again excite the same thrill of 
enjoyment as at first. 
Doncaster had long been considered by ornithologists 
as the northern limit of the Nightingale. In the former 
edition of this work, I had the pleasure of extending its 
boundary line a little further, by stating that its song 
had been several times heard within four or five miles of 
York. 
It is stated in the Zoologist by Mr. Robert Dick 
Duncan, that the Nightingale was heard in Calder Wood, 
in Mid Lothian, in the early part of the summer of 1826, 
a remarkably warm season, one which must be well re¬ 
membered, by every entomologist, as lavish in the pro¬ 
duction of many rare insects. 
The singular, and apparently whimsical distribution of 
the Nightingale through the southern counties of Eng- 
