502 



KED-BREAST WARBLER. Class II. 



Hope. In England is seldom met with to the 

 west of Exeter." J. L. 



3. Red- 

 breast. 



Sylvia. Rubecula. S. grisea, 

 gula pectoreque ferrugineis. 

 Lath. Ind. orn. 520. id. Syn. 

 iv. 442. 



Rubeline. Belon av. 348. 



Rubecula. Gesner av. 730. 



Erithacus. Aldr. av. ii. 325. 



Olina, 16. 



Robin Red-breast, or Rud- 

 dock. Wil. orn. 219. 



Raii Syn. av. 78. 



Le Rouge-gorge. Brisson av. 

 iii. 418. Hist, d'ois. v. 196. 

 PL Enl.36l.L 1. 



Pettorosso. Zinan. 46. 

 Motacilla Rubecula. Gm.Lin. 



993. 

 Rotgel. Faun. Suec. sp. 2fi0. 

 Roed - Finke, Roed- Kielke. 



Br. 283. 

 Rothkehlein. Frisck, i. lg. 

 Rothkropfl. Kram. 376. 

 Smarnza, Taschtza. Scopoli, 



No. 231. 

 Br. Zool. 100. plate S. 2. f. 2. 



^rci. Zool. ii. 113. 



JLHIS bird, though so very petulant as to be 

 at constant war with its own tribe, yet 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, leave* 

 His shivering mates, and pays to trusted Man 

 His annual visit. Half afraid, he first 



* In his Seasons, vide Winter, line 246. 



