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ORD. III. GEN. XI. WARBLER. 



SPE. XII. RED BREAST. 



PI. 109. 



Motacilla rubecula. Lin. Syft. I. p. 337. 

 Le Rouge-gorge. Brif. Orn. III. p. 418. 



Little need be faid of this fpecies, being every where feen and known 

 throughout England. The general colour is brownifh afh, tinged with green ; 

 the wings rather darker, inclining to yellow on the edges of the feathers : the 

 forehead, chin, throat, and breaft, are of an orange red : the belly, and vent, 

 whitifh. 



This is a familiar bird, frequenting the neighbourhood of houfes and gardens, 

 and often coming into houfes in the winter, if the windows be left open, boldly 

 picking the crumbs from the table. The neft is often made in a bulb, not far 

 from the ground, and fometimes in fome retired part of an old building. It is 

 compofed of dried leaves, mixed with hair and mofs, and lined with feathers. 

 It lays from five to feven eggs, of a dufky reddifh white, marked with irre- 

 gular reddifh fpots, and of a roundifh lhape, as reprefented in PI. XXV. 

 Fig. 1. 



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