PLATE LVI. 
The Red-Tail 
Is a bird of paflage, and with us only in the fummer : the male birds are firft feen about the latter 
end of April, or the beginning of May ; they are of fiiort fong, but rather pleafing, and are not 
kept in cages ; the reafon I conceive to be is, becaufe they chiefly feed on flies, caterpillars, and 
grubs ; a fpecies of food not eafily procured for them. They much refemble our Robin in their 
manner of building, as alfo in their eggs and young. The fituation generally made choice of 
by them for their neft, is in fome old faw-pit, or hole in a tree, but care not in what part, as they 
are feldom difturbed : they lay five eggs, and breed three or four times in a feafon, yet v/e feidora 
fee more than one pair of old birds together : they are tender and not very chearful, except when 
the female fits, and then the male bird fings, as is common with moil birds. There is fome differ- 
ence in the male and female in lhape as well as in colour. 
