39^ BLUE-BACKED RED-BREAST, &c. 



XXIX. WARBLER. Gen. Birds, LIL 



zSi.Blue-backeb Hue-bird, Caiejby, i. 47. 



Red-breast. Blue Red-breaft, Edw. 24. — taiufon. 



Motacllla Sialis, Lin, SyJI. 336. — Latham, ii. 446. 



Le Rouge gorge bleu, De Buff on, v. ziz.—Fl. Enl. 390. — BriJJon, iii. 423.-!— 

 -Lev. Mus. — Bl. Mus. 



■^XT". With bill and legs of a jetty blacknefs : head, hind part 



of the neck, back, tail, and coverts of the wings, of a rich 



, , deep and glofly blue : primaries dufky, tipt with brown : frona the 



bill to the tail red. Head, and lower part of the neck, in the 



Female, cinereous blue : breaft duller than that of the Male. 



Place. Frequent in moft parts of North America, from New York to the 



Bermuda iflands. Is the fame in the new world as the Robin-red- 



hreaft is in the old. Are harmlefs, familiar birds. Breed in holes of 



trees. Have long wings. Are fwift of flight, therefore elude the 



purfuit of the Hawk. Have a cry and a whifble. Feed ufually on 



infefts ; bur, through deficiency of that food, come to the farm- 



houfes, to pick up grafs-feeds, or any thing they can meet with. 



282. Black- Redftart, Catejiy, i. 67. — Ednxj. 80. 



HSADED. Mufcicapa ruticilla, i/«. 5)>/?. 326. — Rait Syn. A'v. 180. N" 51. 



Le Gobe-Mouche d'Amerique, BriJJon, iii. 383. — DeBuffon, v. 178, 566. — Lev. 

 Mus Bl.Mus. - 



\SJ With the head, neck, breaft, back, and wings, black : the 



primaries croffed with a broad bar of orange: the fides and 



inner coverts of the wings, belly, and vent, white, fpotted with black 



on the upper fides : two middle feathers of the tail dufky ; the reft 



■ of the fame color at their ends ; the lower parts orange : legs black. 



The Female cinereous olive above j white beneath, bounded on 



each fide by yellow: the parts of the tail which are red in the 



rnale, are in this fex yellow. 



Place. Inhabits the fliady woods of Nevj Tork, Virginia, Hudjon's Bay, 



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