The Nightingale. FAS) 
before the female, and chooses its own place of resi- 
dence. They seem to prefer the hill-sides of our mid- 
land counties ; and any persons wishing to be favoured 
with the delightful song of this bird, and having a 
steep hill partly planted with thorns close to their 
dwelling, I should be inclined to think they would 
find it the haunt of this unrivalled warbler. The ex- 
periment might be tried on wild land without much 
expense. I have counted four of these songsters 
all chanting at once in a distance not exceeding five 
hundred yards. This piece of slanting land I speak 
of is covered with furze and blackthorns, and belongs 
to) the ey, VV. S.. Baker, rector of Eversholt, Bed= 
fordshire. 

