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Title: A natural history of English song-birds : and such of the foreign as are usually brought over and esteemed for their singing : to which are added, figures of the cock, hen and egg, of each species, exactly copied from nature
Year: 1737 (1730s)
Authors: Albin, Eleazar Albin, Eleazar
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Publisher: Cambridge : British Antarctic Survey Printed and sold by A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch in Pater-noster-Row, and S. Birt in Ave-Mary-Lane
Contributing Library: Field Museum of Natural History
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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^A^htirLa^zU-, Urt/k^, ^&n^ ajT^ ^/^ Englilli Singing-Birds. Cj Of the Nightingale. 37:?^ Description and Chara&er. NOtwithftanding the particular Fancyof divers Perfons, for this or thatBird which they efteem and prefer to allothers, tht Nightingale^ by the Generalityof Mankind, is ftill accounted the chiefof all finging Birds : He fends forth hispleafant Notes with fo laviOi a Freedom^that he makes even the Woods to ecchowith his melodious Voice 5 and this de-lightful Bird, fcorning to be out^done, willnor ■yield to any Corapetiror, either ofBirds or Men ; the Wood-Lark is his great-eft Antagonifr, between whom there fome^times happens fuch a Contention for Ma-ft.ery, each driving to outvy the other, that,like true bred Cocks, they feem refolved todye rather than loofe theViftory 5 if theformer carries it in Stoutnefs and Freenefsof Song, fo does the hitter in his pleafingVariety of fofc warbling harmoqious Notes,in which, to my Fancy, none excels, or isequal to hii-n* The

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