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fong, which is continued throughout the year, though at fome 

 times better than others. The female too has her fong, but much 

 inferior to that of the male. 



The food is fuppofed to.be chiefly injects, though at times at- 

 tacks fruits of the lufcious kind; but whether for the fake of 

 them alone, or the infects that infeft them, is not known. 



38. Motacilla rubecula, Lin. &yft'.\. p. 337. N°45. — Faun. Suec. 260. — Scop. ann. 



+■ RED- £. N° 231. — Kram. el. 376. 13.— Brun. N° 283. — Muller, N° 276 



BREAST. Frifcb. pi. 19.— Qlin. uc. pi. in p. 16, 



Le Rouge-gorge, Brif. orn. iii. p. 418. N° 21. — Buf. oif. v. p. 196. pi. n« 



— PL enl. 361. f. 1. 

 Robin Red-breaft, or Ruddock, Rail Syn. p. 78. A. 3. — Will. orn. p. 219. 

 pi. 39. — Albin. i. pi. 51. — Br. Zool. i. N° 147. — Aril. Zooll 

 Br. Mi//. Lev. Muf. 



Description. HP HIS needs little defcription. It is fufficient to fay, that the 

 upper parts are of a greenifh afh-colour : the forehead, 

 throat, neck, and bread, rufous orange : belly and vent whitifh : 

 bill, legs, and fides of the body, dufky. 

 Place and This is a conftant inhabitant of thefe kingdoms, as well as the 



whole European continent from Sweden to Italy ; and is by fome 

 reckoned a bird of pafiage, at leaft as to the major part of them. 

 In great abundance in Burgundy and Lorraine, where numbers are 

 taken for the table y and thought excellent. 



This departure, as Buffon obferves, is not fo manifeft in this as 

 in other migratory fpecies, as it is not its cuftom to join in 

 flocks : each goes off one by one. — How this matter is in re- 

 flect to England, I am at a lofs to think 3 yet Buffon's, opinion 



feems 



Manners. 



