DCHP-1 Online
American nightingale Maritimes. Obs. 
a frog.
- 1820 (1955 [1822]) I called it formerly their yell; but as I heard no bird here sing so sweet in the night, I shall give them the dignified name of American Nightingales.
- 1828 . . . the frogs, those American nightingales . . . strain their evening concerts.
- 1842 . . . the American nightingales, as the frogs are called, commence their singular evening concerts.
- 1820 (1955 [1822]) I called it formerly their yell; but as I heard no bird here sing so sweet in the night, I shall give them the dignified name of American Nightingales.