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Some redbreasts love amid the deepest groTes, 

 Retired, to pass the summer days: Their song 

 Among the birchen boughs, with sweetest fall 

 Is warbled, pausing,— then resumed more sweet, 

 More sad, that, to an ear grown fanciful, 

 The babes, the wood, the men rise in review, 

 And robin still repeats the tragic line. 



Grahame^s Birds of Scotland. 



THE REDBREAST. 



ROBIN REDBREAST, OR RUDDOCK. 



SYLVIA RUBICULA; LATHAM. MOTACILLA RUBI- 



CULA ; LINNiEUS. — ROUGE GORGE ; BUFFON. 



This delightful little warbler, equally sacred to 

 the cottager's hearth, the farmer's hall, and the 

 squire's mansion, is well known through the po- 

 pular and piteous story of " the children in the 

 wood,^* Its confidence in man has rendered the 

 redfbreast a general favourite ; and its familiarity 

 has procured for it, in most countries, a peculiar 



