^l^ RED-BREAST. Class 11. 



and fides are red : the two middle feathers of the 

 tail brown, the others red: the wings brown. In 

 the female, the top of the head and back are of a 

 deep afh color : the rump and tail of a duller 

 red than thofe of the male : the chin white j the 

 lower fide of the neck cinereous ; the bread of a 

 paler red. 



147. Red- 

 breast. 



Rubeline. Belon av. 348. 



Rubecula. Ge/?ier a-v. 730. 



Erithacus. J/^r. a-o. II. 325. 



Olina, 16. 



Robin Red-breaft, or Rud- 

 dock, in I. cm. 219. 



Rail fyn. a^v. 78. 



Le Rouge-gorge. Brijfon av. 



III. 418. 

 PettorofTo. Zinan. 46. 



Motacilla rubecula. Lin.fyfi, 



?,?,7' 

 Rotgel. Faun. Suec. /p. 260. 

 Roed-Finke, Roed-Kielke. 



Br. 283. 

 Rothkehlein. Fri/ch, I. 19. 

 Rothkropfl. Kram. t,j6. 

 Br. Zool. 100. plate S. 2. 

 Sm^rnza, Tafchtza. Scopoli, 



No. 231. 



THIS bird, though fo very petulant as to be 

 at conftant war with its own tribe, yet is 

 remarkably fociable with mankind : in the winter 

 it frequently makes one of the family ; and takes 

 refuge from the inclemency of the feafon even by 

 our fire fides, rhomfon'' has prettily defcribed the 

 annual vifits of this guefl. 



The Red-breast, facred to the houfhold gods. 

 Wifely regardful of th' embroiling iky, 



* In his Seafons, vide Winter, line 246. 



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