THE WARBLER — THE REDBREAST. 



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I love to look around, love, 

 On cherubs that are mine, — 



And oh ! how sweet the thought, love, 

 Those cherubs too are thine ! 



I like a quiet spot, love. 



Where all such things combine 

 To make us truly blest, love, — 



A home almost divine, i'^^) 



(+^) Order, PASSERES, (Linn. )WARELER,REDBREAS'f,WREN, 



Golden-Crested-Wren, Yellow-Wren, Petty-Chaps, 

 Redstart, Wheat-eau, Wagtail, White-Throat, &c. 



The genus Motacilla, (Linn.) or Warbler, to which the 

 Redbreast, Motacilla RvbeculUf belongs, comprehends nearly 

 three hundred species scattered over the globe ; a very great 

 , number of which are natives of Europe, and many of them of 

 our own country ; their characteristics are a weak, slender 

 bill ; nostrils small ; tongue cloven ; toes, the extreme one joined 

 at the under part to the middle one at the base. The follow- 

 ing are Ihe chief: 



The Rubecula, Red-rreast, Robin, Robin-redbreast, Robin- 

 Riddickf Ruddock, or Robinet,* is too well known to need de- 

 scription. There are three varieties; the common grey, with 

 throat and breast ferrujiinous ; the second entirely white ; the 

 third with chin while, wing coverts and feathers variegated. It 

 is remarkable that this bird, which remains, even in North Bri- 

 < 

 * ** The nightingale of birds most choice. 

 To do her best shall strain her voice ; 

 A dd to this bird, to make a set, 

 T4ie mavis, merle, and robinet." 



Dravton, Muses Elysium, 

 Nympliitl, viii. 



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