o F B I R D S. *3 4 
It is fald, that warm drugs, and perfumes, ex¬ 
cite the Nightingale to fing ; that meat, and gar¬ 
den worms are good for them, when they arc too 
fat; and figs when they are too lean; that fpiders 
are phyfic to them, and very proper in April, and 
that half a dozen are a dofe. When they have 
fed on any thing that difagrees with them, they 
bring it up like birds of prey, in little round balls. 
Nightingales ars folitary birds, they not do 
migrate in flocks, but arrive fingly in England, 
in April, or May, and return in that manner about 
Auguft or September. 
They pair foon after their arrival, and them 
they fuffer no other of their fpecies within a cer¬ 
tain diftance ; and it is fuppofed that this diftancc 
is determined by the greater, or lefs plenty of 
food, and that where their proper food abounds, 
their nefts are nearer each other. 
They begin to build their neft about the be¬ 
ginning of May i it is compofed of leaves, rufhes, 
blades of grafs, very coarfc on the outfide, with 
fmall roots,, fibres, horfe-hair, and a kind of down- 
in the infide ; it is generally ex poled towards tne 
eaft and built on the lower branches ot flirubs, 
fuch as goofeberry trees, white thorn, floes, &c. 
or on a° tuft of grafs, and fpmeumes on the 
ground, fo that the Nightingale hcrfclf, and the 
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