^^6 RED-BREASTED THRUSH. 



Pj-ACE. Inhabits North America, from Hudfon's Bay to Natka Sound, on 



the weflern coaft; and fouth as low as Carolina. Quits the warmer 

 parts in the fpring, and retires north to breed. Appear in pairs in 

 Hudfons Bay, on Severn River, at the beginning of May. Ac 

 Moofe Fort, thefe birds build their neft, lay their eggs, and hatch 

 their young, in fourteen days; but at Severn fettlement, which lies in 

 55, or four degrees more north, the fame is not efFefted in lefs than 

 twenty-fix days *. They are alfo very common in the woodi near 

 St. John's, in Newfoundland. 



They arrive in New Tork in February, and lay their eggs in May^ 

 and quit the country in OElober : in each country where they pafs 

 the fummer, they adapt their retreat to the time in which winter 

 fets in. 

 Nests. They make their nefts with roots, mofs, &c. j and lay five eggs, 



of a rnoft lively lea-green colour. The cock is moft affiduous in 

 afllfting its mate in making the neft and feeding the young j and 

 in the intervals cheats her with its mufical voice. 



Like the Englijh Fieldfare, they come and go in large flocks. 

 They have two notes ; one a loud fcream, like the Miflel-bird : the 

 other, a very fweet fong, which it delivers from the fummit of fome 

 lofty tree. 



They feed on worms, infefls, and berries, Mr. Catejhy brings a 

 proof, that it is not the heat of the feafon alone that forces them 

 away. He had, in Virginia, fome trees of the Aluternus, in full 

 berry ; the firft which were known in America : a fingie Fieldfare 

 was fo delighted with them, as never to quit them during the 

 whole fummer. 



They are called in America, the Robin ; not only from the red- 

 nefs of the breaft, but from their aiflions and tamenefs, as I have 

 obferved in thofe kept in aviaries. 



• Pb, tran/a^. Ixii. 399. 



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