From the Dublin Evening Mail, July 13, 1855
Nightingales in Ireland
For the first time in this country, the notes of the nightingale were heard in the woodlands adjacent to Whiteabbey on Friday night last.
This fact, which not a little astonished those who first became aware of it, and who were tolerably acquainted with the natural history of the delightful songster, may be thus explained:
Some time ago, Mr. Hutchinson, of Wellington Park, brought three of these birds from England, two of which be subsequently set free in his own grounds, making a present of the third, which was not fully-grown, to a medical friend in Belfast.
The distance from Wellington Park to the locality where the uncaged pair seem to have fixed their present habitat is not great.
We not know whether the experiment of naturalising the nightingale in Ulster has ever been made before; but, if the present one should succeed, the result would be highly gratifying, especially to our ornithologists.
The owner of the young bird is not without hope that his pretty favourite, even in its state of bondage, will become musical in due season.
It is a disputed point whether the nightingale breeds ao far north in England as Derbyshire.
Certain it is that it altogether escbews Scotland, never having been found wandering wild across the Borders
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