62 REDBREAST. 



REDBREAST. 



ROBIN. ROBIN REDBREAST. RUDDOCK. ROBINET. 

 PLATE CVIII. 



Sylvia rubecula, PENNANT. FLEMING. 



Motacilla rubecula, MONTAGU. BEWICK. 



Erythaca rubecula, SELBY. GOULD. 



"ATIDIFICATION commences very early in the 

 -*-^ spring, and the eggs are usually laid about the 

 beginning of April; but young birds have often been 

 found in the nest by the end of March. In backward 

 seasons they are usually later. Mr. Macgillivray men- 

 tions one seen on the gth. of May, 1831, and another 

 on the 2nd. of June, 1837, which he believed to be the 

 first brood of that year. A Robin's nest containing 

 several eggs, was taken near York the first week in 

 February, 1844, there being snow on the ground at 

 the time, and the temperature ranging from 30 to 23 

 Fahrenheit; another, which had five eggs, was found 

 at Moreton-in-the Marsh, in the second week of January, 

 1848; another, with the like number of eggs, in a 

 garden at Wheldrake, near York, the loth, of the same 

 month; and one, also with eggs, near Belfast on the 

 2oth. of February, 1846. A nest with two eggs, on 

 which the hen bird was sitting, was found near the end 



