ne Roh-m-red-breafi. Rubeculus. //M^^^% 



Numb. LI. y 



IT S Length from the tip of the Bill to the End of the Tail is fix Inches ; its Breadth 

 when the Wings are expanded, nine Inches ; the Breafl: is a deep orange Colour, 

 which Colour compafTes alfo the Eyes and upper part of the Bill : The Belly is white ; 

 the Head, Neck, Back and Tail are of a dirty green or yellow as in 'Thru/hes, or rather 

 cinereous with a Tindure of green 5 a Line of pale blue divides between the red Colour 

 and the cinereous on the Head and Neck ; under the Wings i& fcen fomething of an. 

 orange tawny. 



The exterior Borders of the Wings are almoft of the fame Colour with the Back ; the 

 interior are fomething yellowj the Tail is two Inches and a half long, and made up of 

 twelve Feathers, 



The Bill is llender, of a duiky Colour, and more than half an Inch long; the Tongue- 

 cloven and jagged j the Irides of the Eyes are of a hazel Colour ; the Legs, Feet and Clawsi 

 of a dulky or blackifh ; the outer fore Toe joined to the middlemoft at Bottom as in the 

 reft of this Kind. In Winter-time to feek Food it enters into Houfes with much 

 Confidence, being a very bold Bird, fociable and familiar with Man. In the Summer- 

 time when there is Plenty of Food in the Woods, and it is not pinched with cold, it 

 withdraws itfelf with its Brood info the moft defert Places ; it is a folitary Bird and feeds 

 finglyi it builds its Neft among the thickeft Thorns and Shrubs, covering it with oaken 

 Leaves, and leaving a Paflage to it on one Side only, like a Porch arched over; and when 

 it goes out to feek its Food it flops it up with Leaves, and fometimes in Holes of Trees 

 with Mofs, dead Grafs and Bits of Sticks. The Cock is diftinguifhed from the Hen by the 

 Colour of his Legs which are blacker, and by certain Hairs or Beards which grow on each 

 Side his Bill ; its Food is Worms and Infeds, and when kept in a Cage it is fed as the 

 Nightingale, being by fome efteemed little inferior to it in finging. 



They build in Aprils May and June, feldom having above five young ones and not un- 

 der four : You may take them at ten Days old ; (if you let them lie too long they will be 

 fuUen) keep them warm, giving them not too much Food at a Time, which will caufe 

 them to throw it up again j when they are ftrong, cage them, and keep them in all refpeds 

 like the Nightingale ; they arc fubjeft to Cramp and Dizzinefs, for the Cure of the 

 fofl: give them a Meal-worm or Spider, and for the latter fix or feven Earwigs- a Week. 



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