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American nightingale

Maritimes. Obs.

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a frog.

Quotations

1820

I called it formerly their yell; but as I heard no bird here sing so sweet in the night, I shall give them the dignified name of American Nightingales.

1828

. . . the frogs, those American nightingales . . . strain their evening concerts.

1842

. . . the American nightingales, as the frogs are called, commence their singular evening concerts.