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ERITHACUS RUBECULA. 



(REDBREAST.) 



Motacilla rubecula., Linn. S. N. i. p. 337. no. 45 (1766). 



Sylvia rubecula (Linn.), Scopoli, An. I. Hist. Nat. p. 156. no. 231 (1769). 



Sylvia rubecula (Linn.), Latham, Ind. Ornith. ii. p. 520. no. 42 (1790). 



Erythacus, G. Cuvier (Motacilla rubecula, L.), Lee. d'An. Comp. tab. ii. (1800). 



Curruca rubecula (Linn.), Leach, Syst. Cat. Brit. Mus. p. 25 (1816). 



Ficedula rubecula (Linn.), F. Boie, Isis, 1822, p. 553. no. 129. 



Dandalus rubecula (Linn.), F. Boie, op. cit. 1826, p. 972. 



Dandalus pinetorum, C. L. Brehm, Isis, 1828, p. 1280. 



Dandalus foliorum, C. L. Brehm, loc. cit. (1828). 



Dandalus septentrionalis, C. L. Brehm, loc. cit. (1828). 



Erythaca rubecula (Linn.), Swainson, Faun. Bor.-Amer. Aves, p. 488 (1831). 



Rubecula pinetorum, C. L. Brehm, Vog. Deutschlands, p. 360 (1831). 



Rubecula foliorum, C. L. Brehm, loc. cit. (1831). 



Rubecula septentrionalis, C. L. Brehm, op. cit. pp. 361, 1029, pi. xxi. fig. 3 (1831). 



Rubecula familiaris, Blyth, Field Naturalist, i. p. 424 (1833). 



Rhondella rubecula (L.), Rennie, White's History of Selborne, p. 437 (1833). 



Erithacus rubecula (Linn.), Macgillivray, Hist. Brit. Birds, ii. p. 263. fig. 160 (1839). 



Lusciola (Erithacus) rubecula (Linn.), Keyserl. & Blasius, Wirbelth. Europ. p. lviii. no. 238, 



p. 191. no. 238 (1840). 

 Lusciola rubecula (Linn.), Schlegel, Rev. Crit. p. xxxii (1844). 

 Rubecula rubecula (Linn.), Bp. Consp. i. p. 295 (1850). 



(The above by Lord Walden.) 



Redbreast, Robin, Robinet, Ruddock, English ; Eroinn-dearg, Gaelic ; Rouge-gorge, French ; 

 Pisco de peito ruivo, Portuguese ; Pettiross, Maltese ; Pettirosso, Italian ; Picett, Cipett, 

 Pettiross, Sbizett in Lombardy ; Rothkehlchen, German ; Roodborstje, Dutch ; Rodkj&llr, 

 Nwldekonge, Thomas-winter, Danish ; RddhaJeesdngeren, Rotgeln, Rodhane, Swedish ; 

 Rodstrubesanger, Norwegian ; EultarintaJcerttu, Finnish ; Repel, Repeloff, Russian. 



Figurce notabiles. 

 D'Aubenton, PL Enl. pi. 361. fig. 1 ; Werner, Atlas, Insectivores, pi. 48 ; Frisch, Vog. 

 Deutschl. pi. 19 ; Fritsch, Vog. Eur. pi. 25. fig. 21 ; Sundevall, Sv. Fogl. pi. xii. figs. 1,2; 

 Gould, B. of Eur. pi. 98 ; id. B. of G. B. ii. pi. 48 ; Naumann, Vog. Deutschl. taf. 75. 

 figs. 1, 2 ; Bettoni, Ucc. Lomb. tav. 109 ; Roux, Orn. Prov. pi. 206. 



J ad. supra sordide olivaceus, uropygio paullo clariore : remigibus saturate brunueis, in pogouio externo vix 

 olivaceo marginatis : rectricibus brunneis, versus basin 'conspicue et ad apicem vix olivaceo marginatis : 



