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Nightingale in Uganda

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ORNITHOLOGISTS may be interested to know that in March, when in camp in the part of the Northern Province of Uganda known as West Madi, on two successive mornings I heard a nightingale singing vigorously about 8–9 A.M.: the bird did not commence at daybreak, nor did he sing at night.

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CARPENTER, G. Nightingale in Uganda. Nature 111, 636 (1923). https://doi.org/10.1038/111636a0

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