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the fame : over the eye is a rufous white ftreak : the throat and 

 fore part of the neck of a bright azure blue ; beneath this is a bor- 

 der of black ; and under that the breaft is red : belly, thighs, and 

 vent, dufky white: the tail is brown, like the upper parts of the 

 bird; but the bafe half of all but the two middle feathers is of 

 an orange red. 



This is the defcription of the male ; of which fome varieties Variett. 

 have a beautiful filver-white fpot, of the fize of a filver penny, on 

 the middle of the blue on the fore part of the neck *. 



The female is the fame colour with the male on the upper Female. 

 parts, but differs beneath. In her the throat is white: acrofs the 

 neck a band of blue, bordered beneath with another of black : the 

 reft of the under parts dufky white. 



Thefe birds are found in many parts of 'Europe, though nowhere Place and 

 fo common as the Red-breaft. From the writers above-quoted, 

 we find them to be met with in various parts between Sweden 

 and Gibraltar. They do not frequent woods, like the Red-breaft, 

 but places near the water, among reeds, or the like ; frequently 

 making the neft on the willow-trees, of grafs, &c. 



Authors mention, that it has an agreeable fong; and fomej 

 that it fings in the night f. 



The young do not come to their colour on the breaft till after 

 fome time, as the laft fpecies ; being, like that, only fpotted with 

 brown upon that part. 



It is remarked, that the fine blue colour goes off, if this bird 

 be kept in a cage ; not retaining it after the firft moult. 



• It is probable that thofe with the white fpot may be old birds, as the blue 

 on the breaft in fuch is obferved to be of a deeper colour. 

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