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RED-BREAST WARBLER. 



(Sylvia Rubecula.) 



Sy. grisea, giila pectoreque ferrugineis. 



Grey Warbler, with the throat and breast ferruginous, 



Sylvia Rubecula. Lath. Ind. Orn. 2. 520. 42. 



Motacilla Rubecula. Lin. Si/sf. Nat. 1. 337. 45. — Lm, Faun, 



Suee* 260.—Gmel. Sj/st. Nat, 1. ggs.Scop, Ann. 1. 231. — 



Raii. Syn. 78 a. 3. — Briss. Orn. 3. 418. 21. 

 Rouge-gorge. Buff. Hist. Nat. Ois. 5. IQQ. pi. 11. — Buff. PI, 



Enl. Sdl.f. I.— Buff. Hist. Prov. 1. 508. 

 Red-breast. Pen. Brit. Zool. 147. — P^^' Arct. Zool. 2. 4i7« !>• 



— Albin. Birds. 1. pi. 51. — Will. Ang. 21,9- pi, 39. — Hayes. 



Brit. Birds, pi. 40. — Lath. Gen. Syn. 4. 442. 38. — Letvin, 



Brit. Birds, 3. pi. 107. — Don, Brit. Birds. 5. pi. 123. — Betvick, 



Brit, Birds, 1. 204. — Mont, Orn. Diet. 2. — Mont, Sup. 



This quarrelsome but favourite bird is so well 

 known, that the following short description will 

 suffice : the upper parts are yellowish brown, tinged 

 with ash: forehead, and from chin to breast, deep 

 rufous orange: belly and vent whitish : legs and 

 beak dusky : both sexes are alike : the young do 

 not possess the red feathers on the breast for two 

 or three months after leaving the nest; during that 

 time the breast is spotted with rust-colour. It has 

 been found totally white. 



The Red-breast is generally observed to be most 

 numerous in the winter, which has made many 

 conjecture that it is a migrative species, but the 

 fact has never been correctly ascertained : Scopoli 

 asserts that it is migratory in Carniola: Buffon 



