Glimpses of Indian Birds

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Here we have an excellent illustration of the adage " A little learning is a dangerous thing, " a good example of how erroneous statements creep into scientific books. Dr. Hartert has heard that night- ingales have been recorded in Oudh, so jumps to the conclusion that the species winters there, even as it does in Egypt. This statement will doubtless NIGHTINGALES IN INDIA 149 be copied, without acknowledgment, into many future text-books, for plagiarism is very rife among men of science ; and t
...hus the popular notion that nightingales are common in India will be fortified by scientific support ! Nightingales undoubtedly do winter in India but only in cages. We have many fine songsters in Hindustan, but the nightingale is not one of them.
XXV THE WIRE-TAILED SWALLOW WERE each species of bird to record in writing its opinion of men, the resulting document would certainly not be flatter- ing to the human race. The inhumanity of man would figure largely in it. The majority of the feathered folk have but little cause to love their human neighbours.


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