502 RED-BREAST WARBLER. Class 1L 



Hope. Ill England is seldom met with to the 

 west of ^.re/er." J. L. ■••-■•■'-.:;!,■ 



3. Red- 

 breast. 



Sylvia. Rubecula. S. gvisea, 

 gula pectoreque ferrugineis. 

 Lath. hid. orn. 520. id. Syn. 

 iv. 442. 



Rubeline. Belon av. 348. 



Rubecula. Gesner av. 730. 



Erithacus. Aldr. av. ii. 325. 



Olina, IQ. 



Robin Red-breast, or Rud- 

 dock. Wil. orn. 219. 



Rail Syn. av. 78. 



H-e Rouge-gorge. Brisson av. 

 in. 418. Hist, d'ois. v. lg6. 

 PL Eul.36l.L 1. 



Pettorosso. Zinan. 46. 

 Motacilla Rubecula. Gm.Lin. 



993. 

 Rotgel. Faun. Suec. sp. 260. 

 Roed-Finke, Roed-Kielke. 



Br. 283. 

 Rothkehlcin. Frisck, i. I9, 

 Rothkropfl. Kram. 376. 

 Smarnza, Taschtza. Scopolt, 



No. 231. 

 £?-. Zoo/. 100. plate S. 2. f. 2. 



Jrct. Zool. ii. 113. 



JLpIIS bird, though so ver}' petulant as to be 

 at constant war with its own tribe, 3i^et is re- 

 markably sociable with mankind : in the winter 

 it frequently makes one of the family ; and takes 

 refuge from the inclemency of the season even 

 by our fire sides. Thomson^ has prettily de- 

 scribed the annual visits of this guest. . ,- 



The Red-breast, sacred to the houshold gods, 

 Wisely regardful of th' embroiling sky. 

 In joyless fields, and thorny thickets, leaves 

 His shivering mates, and pays to trusted Man 

 His annual visit. Half afraid, he first 



* In his Seasons, vide Winter, line 246. 



