
Per NIGHTINGALE 
ts plumage of a reddifh afh colour, with bands of afh 

‘ ~ Colour on the legs. It inhabits thofe parts of Europe that 
i are’ thaded with woods, finging in the evenings of the {pring, 
q with. amazing powers, for fo fmall a body; and falling fomes 
: times a vidtim to emulation, in fong. 
j 
. TheNivhtingale is a bird not very cenerall ret | 
 perfed; there are nane in Africa, and in feveral 
_ Parts of Europe, and even of England, they never 
' _ *ppear. Some writers aflert, that there are none 
Pn Devonthire, or Cornwal, or to the north of 
| he? rent, except near Doncafter in Yorkthire, 
: hor in fome parts of Holland, Irel land, Scotland, 
or the northern ‘parts of es ‘though ed 
: Viht Sweden, | Le 
| ‘ “Tn Eno! land, Frarice, ‘Italy, Gi ermany, “nak 
Greece, - they are only birds of paflage; it is as | 
__-pofed they retire into Afia, as ae are found tl thete 
it Perfia, China, and even in Japan, where they 
q are much efteemed for their Aipging, aiid fold for 
oa confiderable price. 
| Indeed they are every where migratory birds ; 
“and this difpofition feems fo implanted in diet, 
that thofe who are confiried m cages, are very 
q much agitated, and reftlefs, at the ufual periods 
i of their migrations, ‘This inftinét feems to act 
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