NIGHTINGALE.
DAULIAS LUSCINIA (Linn.).
Motacilla luscinia, Linn. S. N. i. p. 328 (1766).
Sylvia luscinia, Naum. ii. p. 373.
Philomela luscinia, Macg. ii. p. 321 ; Hewitson, i. p. 124.
Daulias luscinia, Yarr. ed. 4, i. p. 312; Dresser, ii. p. 363.
Rossignol, French; Nachtigall, Waldnachtigall, German;
Ruiseftor, Spanish.
This well-known and most delightful singing-bird is
a common spring visitor to a great part of England, but
seldom visits the extreme western, north-western, and
northern counties, is scarce and very local in Wales,
unknown in Ireland, and its occurrence in Scotland
appears to be open to doubt. In Northamptonshire,
the county with which I am best acquainted, the Nightingale
is exceptionally abundant, generally appearing
about the middle of April, and leaving us early in
September. In Rhenish Prussia, where this and all
other singing-birds are strictly protected by law, and
where (I may add) that law is observed, the Nightingale
is as common and as familiar in public gardens and
shrubberies as the Redbreast in our own country.
J- & -Keulemans del. et litR.
NIGHTINGALE.
Daulias luscinia (Lime).
Miniem. Bros ■ imp.