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NIGHTINGALE. 
Sylvia luscinia, PENNANT. ‘TEMMINCK. 
iMotacilla luscinia, MontTaGu. BEWICK. 
Curruca luscinia, FLEMING. 
Philomela (uscinia, SELBY. GOULD. 
Sylvia. Sylva—A wood. Luscinia—A Nightingale. 
Tue Nightingale is found in Europe, in Russia even and 
the more temperate parts of Siberia, Sweden, Holland, Den- 
mark, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, and the islands of 
Greece. It is known also in Asia—in Asia Minor and Syria; 
and in Africa, in Egypt along the Nile, and in other 
northern districts. 
In Yorkshire I have known them in great plenty in the 
neighbourhood of Doncaster, but the bird-catchers make sad 
havoc among them. They have also been known near York, 
and at Skelton, about five miles north of the ancient city; 
also in woods near Barnsley, near Beverley, and near Leeds; 
in a wood a mile from Shipley, near Bradford; at Walton, 
near Wakefield; Braham Park, near Wetherby; near Hud- 
dersfield, at Cinderfield Dyke Wood in Bradley; and in the 
wood at Cawood on the Ouse below York. I am also 
persuaded that I heard it, ‘ni fallor, some few years ago, 
about a mile south of Malton, seventeen miles north-east of 
York, by the road-side, as I was walking home one moonlight 
night. It is occasionally heard near Sheffield. It is well © 
known in Sussex, Hampshire, and Dorsetshire; some parts of 
Gloucestershire; in Devonshire, near Teignmouth, Honiton, 
Exeter, and the eastern parts of the county, once near 
Kingsbridge, at Exmouth, and Barnstaple; in some parts of 
Somersetshire; Doveridge, in Derbyshire; Cumberland, as far 
north as Carlisle; Essex; Richmond Park, Surrey; Suffolk; 
Norfolk, though less numerous than in some counties, at 
Gunton, Burgh, and elsewhere; Lincolnshire, in some situations; 
and in the Park of Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire, it 1s very 
