16. According to Pallas it is the true nightingale of Europe, Sylvia luscinia, which the Armenians call boulboul, and the Crim-Tartars byl-byl-i.
"Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon"
J. Emerson Tennent
But as for our own luscinia, who winters not in Egypt and Arabia, but in Morocco and Algeria, the only note of his which can be mistaken for sorrow, is rather one of too great joy; that cry, which is his highest feat of art; which he cannot utter when he first comes to our shores, but practises carefully, slowly, gradually, till he has it perfect by the beginning of June; that cry, long, repeated, loudening and sharpening in the intensity of rising passion, till it stops suddenly, exhausted at the point where pleasure, from very keenness, turns to pain; and - 'In the topmost height of joy His passion clasps a secret grief.
"Prose Idylls"
Charles Kingsley
7. Nightingale, luscinia: Beginning of April.
"The-Natural-History-of-Selborne"
White, Gilbert