372 
147. ReED- 
BREAST. 
RED-BREAST. Ciasmil. 
and fides are red: the two middle feathers of the 
tail brown, the others red: the wings brown. In 
the female, the top of the head and back are of a 
deep afh-color: the rump and tail of a duller 
red than thofe of the male: the chin white; the 
lower fide of the neck cinereous; the breaft of a 
paler red. 
Rubeline. Belon av. 348. - wae rubecula. Lin. f/f. 
Rubecula. Ge/ner av. 730. 
Erithacus. Aldr. av, Ue 325. boca Faun. Suec. Jp. 260. 
Olina, 16. Roed- Finke, Roed-Kielke. 
Robin Red-breaft, or Rud- Br. °283. 
dock. Wil. orn, 219. Rachkehie:. Frifch, 4.1. 
Raii fyn. av. 78. Rothkropfl. Kram. 376. 
Le Rouge-gorge. Briffon av. Br. Zool. too. plate S. z. 
Ill. 418. Smarnza, Tafchtza. Scopoli, 
Pettoroflo. Zinan. 46. No. 231. 
HIS bird, though fo very petulant as to be 
“a at conftant war with its own tribe, yet is 
remarkably fociable with mankind: in the winter 
it frequently makes one of the family; and takes 
refuge from the inclemency cof the feafon even by 
our fire fides. Thomfon* has prettily defcribed the 
annual vifits of this gueft. 
The Rep-sreast, facred to the houfhold gods, 
Witely regardful of th’ embroiling fky, 
* In his Seafons, wide Winter, line 246. 
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