The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . he \ one is acquainted with this songsterof the night, the varied and melodious notesof which resound through the woods. Itnestles upon trees, [always on or near theground, among decayed leaves], and singsonly till its young are excluded. Theie is a rather larger species in the eastof Europe, with obscure spots on the breast{Mot. Philomela, Rechst.).—[These birdshave no particular affinity with the follow-ing, but are essentially small slenderThrushe
The animal kingdom : arranged after its organization, forming a natural history of animals, and an introduction to comparative anatomy . he \ one is acquainted with this songsterof the night, the varied and melodious notesof which resound through the woods. Itnestles upon trees, [always on or near theground, among decayed leaves], and singsonly till its young are excluded. Theie is a rather larger species in the eastof Europe, with obscure spots on the breast{Mot. Philomela, Rechst.).—[These birdshave no particular affinity with the follow-ing, but are essentially small slenderThrushes, almost inseparably allied to Tur-ffus minor and some others from NorthAmerica. They have much longer limbsthan the Fauvettes, seek their food princi-pally on the ground, among decaying leaves,and the yoimg are in their first plumagemottled, as in the true Thrushes, which isnot the case with the following. TheCommon or Plain-breasted Nightingale hasver^much the same manners as a Robin, andis equally pugnacious; we have known itaptivity with a female of that species. The Nightingales constitute the Philomela, Swains., Luncinin,. ;. Niglilintn to breed i Brehm.] Other species, more particularly known as Fauvettes, have almost always an agreeable song, and sprightlyhabits. They are continually flitting about in pursuit of insects, nidificate in bushes, and the greater number ofthem frequent watery situations, among the reeds, &c. [Such as do so fall, for the most part, under the naturaldivision fyalicaria, and are very distinct from the others: they have a peculiar babbling song, and are of them have proportionally large bills, and streakless plumage, dark above, paler underneath. Such are]The Great Babbler {Titrdtts anaidi7iaceus, hm.; f?i/lvia turdoides^ Tern.).—Rather less than a Redwing;, and
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