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RED-BREAST WARBLER. 

 (Sylvia Rubecula.) 



SY. grisca, gula pectorequejerrugineis. 



Grey Warbler, with the throat and breast ferruginous, 



Sylvia Rubecula. Latli. Ind. Orn. 2. 520. 42. 



Motacilla Rubecula. Lin. Syst. Nat. 1. 337- 45. Lin. Faun. 



Suec. l60.Gmel. Syst. Nat. 1. 993. Scop. Ann. 1. 231. 



Rail. Syn. 78- A. 3. Briss. Orn. 3. 418. 21. 

 Rouge-gorge. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. 196. pi \\.-Buff. PI. 



Enl. 361. f. 1. Brff. Hist. Prov. 1. 508. 

 Red-breast. Pen. Brit. Zool. 147. Pen. Arct. Zool. 2. 417. D. 



Albin. Birds, l. pi. 5\.Will. Ang. 2KJ. pi. 39- Hayes. 



Brit. Birds, pi. 40. Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 442. 38. Letuin. 



Brit. Birds. 3. pi. 107. Don. Brit. Birds. 5. pi. 123. Bewick. 



Brit. Birds. 1. 204. Mont. Orn. Diet. 2. Mont. Sup. 



THIS quarrelsome but favourite bird is so well 

 known, that the following short description will 

 suffice : the upper parts are yellowish brown, tinged 

 with ash: forehead, and from chin to breast, deep 

 rufous orange : belly and vent whitish : legs and 

 beak dusky : both sexes are alike : the young do 

 not possess the red feathers on the breast for two 

 or three months after leaving the nest; during that 

 time the breast is spotted with rust-colour. It has 

 been found totally white. 



The Red-breast is generally observed to be most 

 numerous in the winter, which has made many 

 conjecture that it is a migrative species, but the 

 fact has never been correctly ascertained : Scopoli 

 asserts that it is migratory in Carniola: Buffon 



