NIGHTINGALES, SONGS.

Press, Volume LXV, Issue 19666, 9 July 1929, Page 12

NIGHTINGALES , SONGS.

BROADCAST FROM LONDON. (r&OM oua o*l coaaxsyorawrr.) LONDON, May 28, The announcement that New Zealand has beard, by means of wirelesa, the song of tbe nightingales in an English wood, has brought forth a • suggestion from a correspondent of the "Daily Tel®graps " He suggests that the B-itish Broadcasting Corporation should catch for the people overseas and for us in this country "the wonderful bird ehora® at dawn—that mighty outburst of the feathered creation that greets the first signs of morning. It would carry to exiled Britons in many lands the awakening song of the Homeland in this joyous month of May. "For once in a way the engineers would surely not object to being on duty in the dim hours of the morning. Certainly they would find that the choir would not fail them in willingness and full-throated heartiness—and in the ease of the nightingale those requirements cannot always be counted upon.'* The correspondent probably forgets that the English birds in New Zealand are just as full-throated at dawn during certain seasons as they are in EnglandIt would be pleasant and interesting, nevertheless, for New Zealander* to hear the English birds' chorus at a time when their own birds are silenced by the winter.