17(1 XJ1KISH NIGHTINGALE.
4tli.—You say that I have 'mistaken the Great Sedge Warbler for
the Thrusli Nightingale.' I must beg leave to say that I have done
nothing of the kind. 1 have done the exact contrary. I have figured
and described them both, separately, and correctly. If the three
authorities have one and all mistaken them, that is their error and
not mine. My only error (if error) was in believing what these three
authorities said.
5th.—You state that you are still of the same opinion, that no one
but myself has asserted that the real ' T h r u s h Nightingale' has occurred
in this country. This assertion certainly amazes me, for you know as
well as 1 do that the three authorities referred to have one and all
>1 at I'd it in black and white. They may have been mistaken, but
asserted it they have. To say that they have not is to say that black
is white. Your alleged disproof of the statement of one of them is
grounded, remember, on your ignorance of there being the two species.
6th.—You say that 1 might have consulted them by letter. If I
had doubted their recorded word, I might have done so, but as I
did not, I expressed no such doubt to them.
1 am, Dear Sir,
Faithfully Yours,
F. O. MORRIS.