192 love's meinie, 



Roth-breustlein. — Wald-roetele. — Winter- 



roetele. — Roth-kehlschen. T. 

 Petti-rosso. I. 



Erythacus Rubecula. G. Rubecula Erythacus. 



Ges. 

 Erythaca Rube- 

 cula. Y. 

 Rubecula Famili- 

 aris. D. 

 Ruddock. B. 



Ruddock, in Cymbeline ; tame Ruddocke, in 

 Assembly of Fowles ; full robin-redebreast, in 

 the Court of Love : 



" The second lesson, Robin Redebreast sang." 



It is rightly classed by F. and Y. with the 

 Warblers. Gould strangely puts it with his 

 rock-birds, ' saxicolinae,' — in which, however, 

 he also includes the sedge warbler. 



The true Robin is properly a wood-bird ; 

 the Swedish blue-throated one lives in marshes 

 and arable fields. I have never seen a robin 

 in really wild mountain ground. 



There is only one European species of 

 the redbreasted Robin. Gould names two 

 Japanese ones. 



