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IN case you have received no earlier communication to a similar effect, you may possibly think it worth while to record that I heard a nightingale twice on the 14th instant, in a plantation by the side of Hanger Lane, in Ealing. It was but an abortive song, such as the first of the season is very apt to be, as if he were rather shy of the sound of his own voice. But there was enough of it to leave no possible doubt as to the identity of the performer. I may add that I have in previous years heard him in the same spot two or three days earlier than elsewhere in this neighbourhood.
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PEARSE, G. The Nightingale. Nature 17, 487 (1878). https://doi.org/10.1038/017487d0
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