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altis hid, that warm drugs, and perfumes, ex- 
- cite the Nightingale to fing ;, that meat, and gar- 
den worms are good for them, when they are too 
fat; and figs when they are too lean; that fpiders_ 
; _ ae phyf to them, and very proper in April, ‘and: 
that half a dozen are a dofe. When they have 
fed on any thing that difagrees- with. them, they 
ag it up like birds of prey, in little round balls. 
- Nightingales are folitary birds, they not do 
igre in flocks, but arrive fingly in England,. 
dn April, or May, and return in that manner: about 
- agit or September. 
They pair foon. after their oil and then 
«bey fuffer no other of their. fpecies within a. cer- 
\ tain diftance ;. and it is fuppofed that this di france: | 
oy BE reincd by the greater, or lefs plenty of . 
~ food, and that where their proper food abounds,, 



g their nefts are nearer eachother. 
They. begin to. build their neft about the be 
3 ~ ginnin’ of May; it is compofed of leaves, iis 
? Dlades of grafs,. very coarfe on the outfide,, with. | 
“ {mall roots, fibres, horfe-hair, and a kind of down. 
inthe infide ; itis gene rally expofed towards the 
eal, and on on the lower branches of fhrubs,. 
~— fuch as gooleberry trees, W white thorn, floes,, &c. s 
3 oon a tuft of grafs,. and fometimes on the. 
egos, fo that the Nig gitingale herfelf, and the 
; E 0. oi. ypung. 


