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and to repay, with seeming gratitude, theit hospi- 

 tality, by the melodious warbling of his little 

 throat : and this daily throughout the mnter. 



We know a gentleman who, last summer, (1822,) 

 caught a young redbreast, one of a brood just 

 flown in his garden : A short time after, the bird 

 was lost, several days elapsed, and robin did not 

 appear ; when the gentleman, walking in the gar- 

 den with a friend, saw a bird of this species, which 

 he thought very like his, hopping among four 

 or five others, that seemed to be all of the same 

 age. He requested his friend not to move, and 

 returned to the house for a few crums, which he 

 held in his hand, and calling " Rohie!" the 

 bird appeared to recognise the name it had been i 

 accustomed to, perched upon his finger, and was 

 instantly secured. The bird is now. May 1823, in 

 full plumage, and singing delightfully: he ranges 

 at liberty through the room, for though he has a 

 large, light, and airy cage, the door of which standsi 

 open, he seldom enters it. In the same room is a 

 chaffinch, still more tame than the redbreast; also 

 a titmouse and a mule bird ; but the moment they 

 are out of their cages, the redbreast pursues, at- 

 tacks, and drives them from place to place, so that 

 he remains cock of the room. If his master takei 



