2&> RED-BREAST. Clafs II. 



neck, and the back are of a deep blue grey : the 

 cheeks and throat black : the bread, rump 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 : 

 th,e 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, 



HI. The RED-BREAST. 



Rubeline. Belon a-v. 348. PettorofTo. Zinan. 46. 



Rubecula. Gefner a<v. 730. Motacilla rubecula. Lin. fyfi* 



Erithacus. Aldr. a-v. ii. 325. 337. 



QJina'\6' Rocge!. Faun. Suec. fp. 260. 



Robin red-breaft, or Ruddock. Roed-Finke, Roed-Kielke. Br* 



Wil. or 7i. zig. 283. 



Raiifyn. an}. 78. Rothkropfl. Kratn. 376. 



Le Rouge-gorge. BriJJon aw. iii. Br. Tool. 100. plate S. 2. 



418. 



/"Tp\HIS bird, though fo very petulant as to be at 

 JL conftant war with its own tribe ; yet is re- 

 markably fociable with mankind : in the winter it 

 frequently makes one of the family ; and takes re- 

 fuge from the inclemency of the feafon even by our 

 fire fides. Tbompfon * has prettily defcribed the an- 

 nual vifits of this gueft. The great beauty of that 

 celebrated poet confifts in his elegant and juft des- 

 criptions of the oeconomy of animals ; and the happy 

 ufe-f* he hath made of natural knowledge, in defcrip- 



* In his feafons, vide Winter, line 246. 

 •j- Vide our Preface. 



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