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THE BIRDS OF HAMPSHIRE. 
Genu s — Erithacus. 
14. Erithacus rubecula. Redbreast. 
Robin. Robin Redbreast. 
" .... he turn'd and look'd as keenly at her 
As careful robins eye the delver's toil." 
Tennyson's " Geraint and Enid" 
" In the spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin's breast." 
''Locksley HalW 
" On the well nigh naked tree the robin piped 
Disconsolate." ''^ Enoch ArdenP 
A common resident. 
Found in every part of the county and Isle of Wight. 
Gilbert White saysi^ " Redbreasts sing all through the spring, 
summer, and autumn. The reason that they are called 
autumn songsters is, because in the first two seasons their 
voices are drowned and lost in the general chorus ; in the 
latter their song becomes distinguishable. Many songsters 
of the autumn seem to be the young cock redbreasts of 
that year." 
Genus — Daulias. 
15. Daulias luscinia. Nightingale. 
" Lay hidden as the music of the moon 
Sleeps in the plain eggs of the nightingale." 
Tennyson's Aylmer^s FieldJ* 
" the nightingale 
Sang loud, as tho' he were the bird of day." 
Tennyson's "Gardener's Daughter." 
A common summer visitor. 
* Letter xl. to Pennant. Selborne. September 2nd, 1774. 
