THE WARBLER — THE REDBREAST. 241 



I love to look around, love, 



On cherubs that are mine, — 

 And oh ! how sweet the thought, love, 



Those cherubs too are thine ! 



I like a quiet spot, love, 



Where all such things combine 



To make us truly blest, love, — 

 A home almost divine. ( 42 ) 



(+-) order, passeres,(liw«.)wareler,redbreast,wrey, 

 Golden-Crested-Wren, Yellow-Wren, Petty-Chaps, 

 Redstart, Wheat-ear, Wagtail, White-Throat, &c. 



The genus Motacii.la, (Linn.) or Warbler, to which the 

 Redbreast, Motacilla Rvbeculu, belongs, comprehends nearly 

 three hundred species scattered over the globe; a very great 

 number of which are natives of Europe, and many of them of 

 our own country ; their characteristics are a weak, slender 

 bill ; nostrils small ; tongue cloven ; toes, the extreme one joined 

 at the under part to the middle one at the base. The follow- 

 ing are Ihe chief: 



The Rubecula, Red-breast, Robin, Robin-red- breast, Robin- 

 Riddick, Ruddock, or Robinet,* is too well known to need de- 

 scription. There are three varieties; the common grey, with 

 throat and breast ferruginous; the second entirely white; the 

 third with chin while, wing coverts and feathers variegated. It 

 is remarkable that this bird, which remains, even in North Bri- 



* M The nightingale of birds most choice, 



To do her best shall strain her voice ; 



A dd 1o this bird, to make a set, 



The mavis, merle, and robinrt." 



Drayton, Muse's Ehjsium, 

 Nymplml, viii. 



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