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... brought the nightingale much into their songs of praise of earthly joys. The bulbul, of which they wrote and sang, was the European nightingale, which visits Persia in spring to sing and love and nest. They pass as far South as Shiraz, where they meet the plump little Indian bulbul, which is often mistaken ...

— Persia Revisited • Thomas Edward Gordon

... represented in the Arakan hills, are rare in the islands; while a third of the different species found are peculiar to the Andamans. Moreover, the Andaman species differ from those of the adjacent Nicobar Islands. Each group has its distinct harrier-eagle, red-cheeked paroquet, oriole, sun- bird and bulbul. Fish are very numerous and many species are peculiar to the Andaman seas. Turtles are abundant and supply the Calcutta market. Of imported animals, cattle, goats, asses and dogs thrive well, ponies and horses indifferently, and sheep badly, though some success ...

— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia

... men, but those also of beasts and birds.'" Some recollection of this appears in Ecclesiastes (x. 20), where we read, "For a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter," and in our own familiar saying "a little bird told me," as well as in the Bulbul-hezar or talking bird of the Arabian Nights, and its imitation "the little green bird who tells everything," in the Fairy Tales of the Comtesse d'Aunoy. The interpretation of the cries of birds and animals into human speech has also some light thrown upon ...

— The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought • Alexander F. Chamberlain

Words linked to "Bulbul" : Luscinia megarhynchos, nightingale