NIGHTINGALE.
EOS, OF THE ANCIENT BRITISH.
Sylvia luscinia, PKNNANT. TEHMINCK.
MONTAGU. BEWICK.
FLEMING.
SELBY. GOULD.
Motacilla luscinia,
Curruca luscinia,
Pkilomt lii lust inia,
Sylvia. Sylva—A wood. Luscinia—A Nightingale.
T H E Nightingale is found in Europe, in Russia even and Sweden,
Holland, Denmark, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, and the islands of
Greece. It is known also in Asia—in the more temperate parts of
Siberia, and in Asia Minor and Syria; also in Africa, in Egypt along
the Nik1 , and in other northern districts.
I u Yorkshire 1 have known them in great plenty in the neighbourhood
of Doncaster, in Edlinton wood, but the bird-catchers make
sad havoc among them. They have also been known near York, and
at Skelton, about five miles north of the ancient city; also in woods
near Barnsley, near Beverley, and near Leeds; in a wrood a mile
from Shipley, near Bradford; occasionally near Sheffield; at Walton,
near Wakefield; Bramham Park, near Wetherby, the seat of George
Lane Fox, Esq.; near Iluddersfield, at Cinderficld Dyke Wood in
Bradley; and in the great wood called Bishop's Wood, being the
property of His Grace the Archbishop of York, at Cawood on the
Ouse below York. I am also persuaded that I heard one, 'ni tailor,'
some few years ago, about a mile south of Malton, seventeen
miles north-east of York, by the road-side, as I was walking home
one moonlight night. It is occasionally heard near Sheffield. It is
well known in Sussex, Hampshire, and Dorsetshire; some parts of
Gloucestershire; also, but much less frequently, in Devonshire, near
Teignmouth, I Loniton, Exeter, and the eastern parts of the county,
once near Kingsbridge, also at Exmouth, and Barnstaple; in fact the
authenticated instances of its occurrence in that county, where one