. A history of British birds . philomela, extends itssummer range further to the northward than our D. luscinia,and reaches the southern parts of Sweden: westward it appearsnot to cross the Rhine valley, and further south it is limitedby much the same longitude, though Dr. Cara says it occursin Sardinia. Eastward it would seem to occur in India,Mr. Jerdon (Ibis, 1869 p. 356) having recognized a specimenin the Lucknow Museum. The vignette represents the nest of our Nightingale. * Failing to detect the blunder of an anonymous writer (Zool. p. 1876) whoapplied this name to a very diflerentbird, M
. A history of British birds . philomela, extends itssummer range further to the northward than our D. luscinia,and reaches the southern parts of Sweden: westward it appearsnot to cross the Rhine valley, and further south it is limitedby much the same longitude, though Dr. Cara says it occursin Sardinia. Eastward it would seem to occur in India,Mr. Jerdon (Ibis, 1869 p. 356) having recognized a specimenin the Lucknow Museum. The vignette represents the nest of our Nightingale. * Failing to detect the blunder of an anonymous writer (Zool. p. 1876) whoapplied this name to a very diflerentbird, Mr. Morris has introduced the Thrush-Nightingale to his readers as a British species, when the recorded occurrenceson which he chiefly relies notoriously refer not to Philomela turdoides, Blyth,but to Sylvia turdoides, B. Meyer, of which, though under a far older name, anaccount will by-and-bye be given here. There is no sufficient reason for supposingthat the larger Nightingale of eastern Kurope has ever visited this J BLUEIIIHOAT. 321 PA S^ERES. -S YL I
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