
: Or Be ROD Be 0 Eas: 
When te in a cage they bathe theintves after 
they have fung ; they have been obferved to do 
this immediately as candles were lighted. It may 
be well to mention another efle&t of light upon 
them; a Nightingale who fung very well having 
j bea from his cage, inftantly few into the 
} ae and was burnt. 
4 Nightingales, at leaft the males, have a habit 
of railing, and finking their bodies alternately, 
- tallancing themfelves on their perches, and both 
a males and females raife and let fall their tails. 
i. Nightingales conceal themfelves in the thickeft 
- buthes, they frequent hedges, and low coppices, 
a they feed on aquatic and other infects, on worms, 
on the eggs or larva of ants, fome fruits and” 
berries. They are not fufpicious, but fo much 
e contrary, that they aré taken in a variety 
of Ways > they may be attracted by the fong 
t of birds, by a fine voice, and even by dif- 
q agreeable noifes, for they feem foolifhly inquili- 
\ tive ; they wonder at every thing that is new, and 
are often the dupes of their curiofity; they are 
Phi: with birdlime, with traps, {nares of various 
- kinds, and fpringes. Sometimes they abound in 
particular places. Once ina dry feafon, in the 
Se of the Foreft of Ardennes, which 
ols in 1 the Netherlands, the fhepherd’s boys have 
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