. A history of British birds / by the Rev. F. O. Morris . , near Beverley, and near Leeds;in a wood a mile from Shipley, near Bradford; at Walton,near Wakefield; Braham Park, near Wetherby; near Hud-dersfield, at Cinderfield Dyke Wood in Bradley; and in thewood at Cawood on the Ouse below York. I am alsopersuaded that I heard it, *ni fallor, some few years ago,about a mile south of Mai ton, seventeen miles north-east ofYork, by the road-side, as I was walking home one moonlightnight. It is occasionally heard near Sheffield. It is wellknown in Sussex, Hampshire, and Dorsetshire; some parts ofGl
. A history of British birds / by the Rev. F. O. Morris . , near Beverley, and near Leeds;in a wood a mile from Shipley, near Bradford; at Walton,near Wakefield; Braham Park, near Wetherby; near Hud-dersfield, at Cinderfield Dyke Wood in Bradley; and in thewood at Cawood on the Ouse below York. I am alsopersuaded that I heard it, *ni fallor, some few years ago,about a mile south of Mai ton, seventeen miles north-east ofYork, by the road-side, as I was walking home one moonlightnight. It is occasionally heard near Sheffield. It is wellknown in Sussex, Hampshire, and Dorsetshire; some parts ofGloucestershire; in Devonshire, near Teignmouth, Honiton,Exeter, and the eastern parts of the county, once nearKingsbridge, at Exmouth, and Barnstaple; in some parts ofSomersetshire; Doveridge, in Derbyshire; Cumberland, as farnorth as Carlisle; Essex; Eichmond Park, Surrey; Suffolk;Norfolk, though less numerous than in some counties, atGunton, Burgh, and elsewhere; Lincolnshire, in some situations;and in the Park of Woburn Abbey, Bedfordshire, it is very. NTGHTIKOALE. 83 abundant. It has also frequented the Regents Park, HydePark, Kensington Gardens, near London. In Scotland a pair are said by Mr. Robert D. Duncan tohave bred in Calder Wood, in West Lothian, in the year 1826. In Ireland it has hitherto been altogether unknown. Woods, groves, plantations, and copses are its favouriteresort, but it is also found in gardens, even in the neigh-bourhood of London, and also among thick hedges in shaayand sheltered situations. Insects of various sorts, spiders, and earwigs furnish themwith food. The young are fed principally with caterpillars. The Nightingale favours us with its company about themiddle or end of April, sometimes it is said, not until May,the males arriving about a week or ten days before thefemales. It has been known to arrive on the Suffolk coastas early as the 7th. of that month. It departs again inAugust or September. It would appear that its migrationis made
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