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830. BIRDS, Nightingale.—
I have heard
the nightingale in all its perfection, and I do
not hesitate to pronounce that in America it
would be deemed a bird of the third rank only,
our mocking-bird, and fox-colored thrush being
unquestionably superior to it.—
To Mrs. John Adams.
Ford ed., iv, 63.
(P.
1785)
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