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‘each caught near twenty in a morning: they ree 
forted to. thofe parts of the foreft where the 
‘Water was not dried up, q 
Thofe who take them are very cateful not 0 
: injure their feathers, left it frould delay theit 
fone; for whilft they are moulting, they areal: 
ways filent. Sometimes to haften the time of 
their fingine, the feathers are taken ‘out of thelt 
tail, that the new ones may grow again the foonet. 
Nightingales are faid to be wy nice - 
when they are fat. 7 
In Gafcony they are fometimes Seiden fe ei 
table; fo wanton a deftruction of a bird wholt 
fong is fo. melodious, recals ‘the depraved, ¢he 
“cruel, and extravagant fancy of Hetiogabolieg 
Roman Fimperor, who feafted on the tongue 
: Flemingoes, | Peacocks, and Nightingales. 
, The plumage of the Ni ehting ale is not beats 
tiful, the upper part of the body is of a reddit 
brown ; .the ‘throat, breatt, and ftoma ich of a 
whitifh grey. Nightingales ‘that are bred in. the 
fouthern countries, have a darker plumage ; al 
th fe bred in nor thern countries a lighter pl 
mace. ; 
The tongue of the Nighting e is very 
markable, the end is furnifhed with threads, 4 
feems as though it had bees cut off, 4 
oe . a Bal 
