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ERITHACUS RUBECULA. THE ROBIN 

 REDBREAST. 



ROBIN. REDBREAST. ROBINET. RUDDOCK. BROINUERG. 



Fig. IGO. 



Motacilla Rubecula. Linn. Syst. Nat. I. 337. 



Sylvia Rubecula. Lath. Ind. Orn. IL 520. 



Redbreast. Moat. Orn. Diet. 



Bee-fin, Rouge-gorge. Temm. Man. d'Orn. L 215. 



Redbreast. Erythaca Rubecula. Selb. Illustr. L 188. 



Sylvia Rubecula, Redbreast. Jen. Brit. Vert. An. 103. 



Plumage of the upper parts oUte-green ; the forehead^ cheeks^ 

 fore-neck and part of the breast, light yellowish-red. 



Male. — It may by some be considered superfluous to give a 

 minute description of a bird so well known as the Robin ; but 

 the common and familiar are at least as worthy of attentive 

 observation as the scarce and shy, and it is not consistent with 

 the plan of this work to pass over any object or circumstance 

 however trivial. The general form of this species has been 

 described in the generic character. Its bill is rather short, slen- 

 der, with the tip slightly decurved and extending very little be- 

 yond that of the lower mandible. The tongue is four and a half 

 twelfths long. The oesophagus two inches and two twelfths 

 in length, its average diameter two twelfths ; the stomach 

 broadly elliptical, nine twelfths long, its lateral muscles strong ; 



