PETROICA multicolor. 
Scarlet-breasted Robin. 
Family Sylviade. 
GENERIC CHARACTER. 
Bill slender, the sides compressed, the tip gradually bent, and 
beset with bristles at the base. JWVings long; the first quill 
spurious ; the second intermediate in length between the sixth 
and seventh. Jars elevated, the inner toe manifestly shorter 
than the external toe. Yazl broad, even. 
SpEciFIC CHARACTER. 
Head, throat, and upper plumage black; front snowy ; wings with 
one longitudinal and two oblique white bands; breast and 
part of the body scarlet ; belly dull white. 
Red-breasted Warbler. Lewin. Birds of New Holl. pl. 17. 
Muscicapa multicolor. Gen. Horsf. § Vig. Linn. Tr. v. 16, p. 243. 
Red-bellied Flycatcher. Lath. Gen. Hist. 6, p. 209, pl. 100? 
Mus. Nost. &c. 
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Tue analagous resemblances between the species and groups 
of one region, and those by which they are represented in 
another, are among the most curious and remarkable facts 
in Natural History: whether we look to them as proofs of 
a Divine plan, vast in its extent, and wonderful in its de- 
tails, or as exemplifying that system of symbolical relation- 
ship by which every part of the animated world is mutually 
connected. Both appear intended for one great purpose, 
the partial initiation of man into earthly mysteries, that he 
may have greater faith in those which regard his eternal 
welfare. 
The Robin, spread over the whole of Europe, is repre- 
sented in temperate America by the Blue Bird of Wilson 
(Sialia Wilsonti, Sw.). Neither of these are found in 
New Holland, but the bird before us may be considered 
their representative. Lewin, who wrote upon the spot, 
observes that although in some respects solitary, it fre- 
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