. Harmonia ruralis, or, An essay towards a natural history of British song birds : illustrated with figures the size of life, of the birds, male and female, in their most natural attitudes ... . -. USA 52 ^NEST AND EGGS OF THE NIGHTINGALE. PLATE LII. It was never my good fortune to find a Nightingalesnest, neither have I been able to procure one frommy friends, though I have (for the sake of this work)made repeated applications to gentlemen residing insuch parts of the kingdom as the Nightingale nest figured on my plate, is exactly copied from acoloured drawing, generously sent t
. Harmonia ruralis, or, An essay towards a natural history of British song birds : illustrated with figures the size of life, of the birds, male and female, in their most natural attitudes ... . -. USA 52 ^NEST AND EGGS OF THE NIGHTINGALE. PLATE LII. It was never my good fortune to find a Nightingalesnest, neither have I been able to procure one frommy friends, though I have (for the sake of this work)made repeated applications to gentlemen residing insuch parts of the kingdom as the Nightingale nest figured on my plate, is exactly copied from acoloured drawing, generously sent to me by my worthyfriend John Latham, Esq., who caused his daughter tomake it from a perfect nest in his possession. The song of the Nightingale is too well known andtoo much celebrated to require any of my dull encom-iums. Plinies description of it is beautiful and cur-ious, vide Plin. Hist. Nat. lib. lo, chap. 29. Which(translated into English) you may find in Plinies Nat-ural History, by Philemon Holland, Doctor of Physic,published in London in the year 1634. Not only inthe time of Pliny, but long before him, and since,down to this day, this poor bird has been the butt ofwhining lovers
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